US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Dec. 23 for "Methods and apparatus for selecting a control channel to reduce or avoid collisions" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,221, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for selecting a control channel to reduce or avoid collisions" was invented by Ramneek Bali (Aurora, Colo.), Elliott Hoole (Parker, Colo.) and Alec Hampton (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interference on control channels using shared spectrum is managed by a base station without the use of centralized spectrum control device. A base station monitors a plurality of alternative control channels and measures received signal strength energy corresponding to each of the plurality of alternative candidate contro...