ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,735, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for cell activation in wireless networks" was invented by Maulik Vaidya (Escondido, Calif.) and Curt Wong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for streamlined cell activation in a wireless network. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods provide enhanced wireless services which utilize bandwidth-efficient setup/configuration messaging and cell activation, including for very large numbers of cells, and which do not overwhelm data backhaul(s) associated with wireless nodes used for communi...