US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on July 22 for "Use of allocated wireless channels in a wireless network" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,194, issued on July 22, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Use of allocated wireless channels in a wireless network" was invented by Abdulrauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.), Amitav Mukherjee (Elk Grove, Calif.) and Ahmad Reza Hedayat (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless station is allocated use of a time slot in a given direction, uplink or downlink, on a given channel. The wireless station monitors for presence of wireless energy during a portion of the time slot. Based on a detected level of the wireless energy in the time slot, the wireless station controls transmission of wireless comm...