ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,693, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Downlink power control for interference mitigation in competing communication systems" was invented by Belal Hamzeh (Westminster, Colo.), Jennifer Andreoli-Fang (Boulder, Colo.), Alireza Babaei (Herndon, Va.) and Luis Alberto Campos (Superior, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods presented herein provide for altering communications of a LTE wireless communication system operating in an RF band with a conflicting WiFi system. In one embodiment, an LTE system includes a wireless base station operable to transmit downlink...