ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,445, issued on May 26, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Voronoi tesselation for optimizing base station deployment in wireless networks" was invented by Muhib T. Oduwaiye (Aurora, Colo.), Pareshkumar Panchal (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Noah Yoder Polizzotto (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Anthony Steven Preston (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information indicative of a plurality of sub-areas of a geographic area can be obtained. Each sub-area is demarcated by a corresponding enclosed border. For each sub-area a set of internal borders that are successively nested within the enclosed border o...