ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,377, issued on May 13, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Determining service group capacity" was invented by Craig Joseph Johns (Northglenn, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system fits a long-term utilization line through aggregate utilization values that correspond to ones of a plurality of intervals over a time period. The computing system determines, for each respective interval of/ordinal intervals in each second time period within the time period, a mean residual value based on a difference between a utilization value identified on the long-term utilization line at the respective...