ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,314, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Uplink signal control" was invented by Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Alireza Babaei (Fairfax, Va.), Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Kai Xu (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station may cancel or delay (e.g., pre-empt) a transmission from a wireless device by sending a pre-emption indication to the wireless device. Based on receiving the pre-emption indication, the wireless device may cancel the transmission, store an indication a...