ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,935, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for DOCSIS profile management" was invented by Karthik Sundaresan (Boulder, Colo.), Gregory C. White (Louisville, Colo.) and Jingjie Zhu (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for optimizing a set of profiles assigned to a population of user devices over a network communication channel having a plurality of active subcarriers. The method includes (a) establishing an MER for each user device of the population, (b) generating a memorization matrix having an initial size of NxN, where N represents ...