US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on May 12 for "Dynamic incumbent protection" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,142, issued on May 12, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Dynamic incumbent protection" was invented by Rauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a CBRS system, a spectrum access system (SAS) ensures access by incumbents to specified CBRS channels by establishing temporary whisper zones as needed based on information about incumbent locations and channel usage received from an incumbent tracking system. The SAS relies on environmental sensing capability (ESC) sensors located within the whisper zones to detect actual incumbent use of the specified channels. Upon such detection, the SAS co...