ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,684, issued on March 25, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Minimizing the impact of in-band interference in transmissions to a customer premises equipment (CPE) device" was invented by Shlomo Ovadia (Denver) and Deependra Rawat (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of signal quality values that characterize signal qualities of the corresponding OFDM channel's subcarriers of a channel used by a first cable modem to communicate with an aggregation device are received. Due to in-band interference it is determined that a first subcarrier has a first signal quality value outside of ...