ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,378, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for variable time division duplex data allocation" was invented by Dorin Gheorghe Viorel (Erie, Colo.), Ruoyu Sun (Westminster, Colo.) and Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for variable time division duplex (TDD) data allocation in a communication network including a donor wireless communication node and a plurality of child wireless communication nodes. The method includes (a) determining a highest traffic child wireless communication node of the plurality of child wireless communication...