ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,964, issued on July 1, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Network access and management via wireless access profiles" was invented by Donald W. Sherker (Englewood, Colo.), Peter A. Ericksen (Castle Rock, Colo.), Jon Jasiunas (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Nad P. Weyer (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Communication management hardware controls network access via generation and distribution of wireless access profiles. For example, the communication management hardware receives a network access request from first user equipment to use a network over an open SSID network. In response to detectin...