ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,938, issued on July 21, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Wireless communication system and service flow control" was invented by Kamran Yousuf (Centennial, Colo.), Faisal Khan (Aurora, Colo.) and Ramneek S. Bali (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system as discussed herein includes communication management hardware. The communication management hardware: receives a first data packet including a first data payload, the first data packet encoded in accordance with a wireless communication protocol for conveyance to a destination network address; maps a first quality of service associated w...