ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,946, issued on May 12, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Method and system for supporting non-emergency community services over wireless local area network (WLAN)" was invented by Venkata Ramana Divvi (Centennial, Colo.) and Christopher J. Teague (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are disclosed for supporting non-emergency community services in a wireless communication network. An end user device may detect activation of an over-the-top (OTT) application, which may be configured to monitor surrounding wireless networks. The end user device may also receive broadc...