US Patent Issued to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING on June 16 for "Apparatus and methods for wireless coverage enhancement using technology detection" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,713, issued on June 16, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for wireless coverage enhancement using technology detection" was invented by Amitav Mukherjee (Elk Grove, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for improving coverage and/or power-saving in a wireless network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide mechanisms for wireless user device (such as e.g., a 3GPP-compliant UE) to utilize downlink transmissions related to a first access technology (e.g., LTE) to enhance the detection and reception of downlink transmissions from a second access t...