ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,292, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for smart WiFi reattachment" was invented by Rohith Kumar Punithavel (Englewood, Colo.), Mohamed Daoud (Aurora, Colo.), Hany Heikal (Aurora, Colo.) and Hossam Hmimy (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for smart reattachment of mobile devices to service provider networks such as WiFi networks. A method for smart reattachment of local wireless service includes scanning, by a mobile device, for access points to establish a local wireless service connection although local wireless service is user ...