ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,250, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for latency reduction" was invented by Jennifer Andreoli-Fang (Boulder, Colo.) and Bernard McKibben (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein provide for reducing latency in wireless service through a communication link comprising a Modem Termination System (MTS) and a modem. The communication link is coupled with a virtualized wireless link. In one embodiment, a method includes transferring a buffer status report (BSR) from a user equipment (UE) through the communication link...