ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,643, issued on March 11, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Claremont, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for providing planned spectrum allocation for shared spectrum" was invented by Khalid W. Al-Mufti (Sterling, Va.) and Ariful Hannan (Sterling, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for more efficiently determining frequency spectrum to allocate to General Authorized Access (GAA) citizens broadband radio service device(s) (CBSD(s)). Efficiency is enhanced by reducing a number of protection point(s) analyzed."

The patent was filed on March 24, 2022, under Application No. 17/703,608.

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