ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,272, issued on July 8, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Signal repeater to cause a handoff in a wireless network" was invented by Volkan Sevindik (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless base station provides a communication device access to a remote network over a wireless communication link. The wireless communication link provides poor connectivity between the mobile communication device and the first wireless base station. The first wireless base station receives a notification indicating that the communication device is within wireless range of at least a second wireless bas...