ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,078, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Device address bundling for IoT communication" was invented by Volkan Sevindik (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, and apparatus enabling communications between a mobile network node (e.g., base station, eNB, gNB) and a large number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices by defining IoT device groups comprising at least one primary IoT device and a plurality of secondary IoT devices. The mobile network node communicates directly with group primary IoT devices via a mobile network protocol, and...