US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Nov. 3 for "Methods and apparatus for providing an alternative communications path between a base station and a spectrum access system (SAS)" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,733, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for providing an alternative communications path between a base station and a spectrum access system (SAS)" was invented by Saran Khalid (Denver), MohammedYusuf Shaikh (Aurora, Colo.) and Perwaiz Akhtar (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alternative channel for communicating information relating to renewal of a spectrum grant from SAS to a base station is implemented. This alternative channel provides a communications path to communicate status of a grant from an SAS to the base station, while the base station'...