US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on March 4 for "Spectrum usage protection in a shared wireless network" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,048, issued on March 4, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Spectrum usage protection in a shared 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 wireless system is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of entities. A communication management resource receives notification that a second-tier priority entity has been allocated use of a second wireless spectrum as a replacement to first wireless spectrum. In one embodiment, the first wireless spectrum is revoked from the second-tier priority entity based on use of the firs...