ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,276, issued on April 15, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Scheduling wireless communications" was invented by Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Bing Hui (Herndon, Va.), Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.) and Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Control information may be used to schedule communications between a wireless device and a base station. The wireless device may monitor control channels associated with one or more cells to receive the control information."

The patent was filed on June 16, 2023...