ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,269, issued on March 18, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Time-division communication analysis and bandwidth allocation in a wireless network" was invented by Abdulrauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.) and Maulik V. Vaidya (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication management resource receives first input indicating a first time-division communication configuration associated with first wireless stations operated by a first wireless network service provider. The communication management resource receives second input indicating a second time-division communication configuration associated ...