ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,465, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications are described. A central unit control plane (CU-CP) node of a base station may activate and/or deactivate packet duplication based on status information from self-monitoring, from a distributed unit (DU), from a wireless device, and/or from a central unit user p...