ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,886, issued on May 20, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Small-cell base station location registration" was invented by Lakhbir Singh (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method and apparatus for registering a wireless station such as a CBRS transmitter establishes registration parameters including location and channel information for avoiding interference from other wireless stations in close proximity. A network address of the wireless station is employed to identify location information in GPS coordinates by referencing a subscriber database with billing or service address inform...