ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,023, issued on March 3, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"OFDM profile generation based on service tiers" was invented by Lei Zhou (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of cable modems (CMs) serviced by a cable management termination system (CMTS) are identified, each of the CMs being associated with a particular bandwidth service tier of a plurality of bandwidth service tiers. The plurality of CMs are grouped into a quantity of groups of CMs based on the bandwidth service tier with which each CM is associated. A CM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) profile...