ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,118, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Channel allocation based on adjacent channel interference" was invented by Abdulrauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication management resource receives input indicating presence of a pair of wireless stations including a first wireless station and a second wireless station in a network environment. Based on a determined amount of adjacent channel interference between the first wireless station and the second wireless station, the communication management resource generates an adjacent channel interference value. The ...