US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 16 for "Energy saving in communications network" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,359, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Energy saving in communications network" was invented by Stanislav Filin (Reston, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.) and Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Base station cell activation/deactivation may be based on energy cost. A base station may communicate with at least one other base station to coordinate deactivation of a cell and/or offloading one or more wireless devices in the cell to at least one o...