ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,414, issued on March 18, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks" was invented by Volkan Sevindik (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks. An exemplary method embodiment includes a mobile terminal: receiving from a base station a first uplink resource grant schedule including a first uplink resource grant and a second uplink resource grant, the first uplink resource grant giving the mobile terminal an exclusive r...