ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,436, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Cox Communications Inc..

"Wireless channel control using client feedback" was invented by Michael Paul Overcash (Duluth, Ga.), Yousef Wasef Nijim (Cumming, Ga.) and Matthew Wayne Chappell (Lawrenceville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure improve wireless networking performance by reducing or limiting performance issues caused by undetected or unknown interference sources and/or attenuation sources. Feedback from client devices can be utilized to reduce or limit wireless network performance issues caused by varying interference parameters and/or attenuation param...