ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,868, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).
"Seamless connectivity using licensed and unlicensed wireless spectrum bandwidth" was invented by Pareshkumar Panchal (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Muhib Taiye Oduwaiye (Aurora, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In wireless communications, an uplink imbalance can exist for a wireless device (e.g., a cell phone), where the uplink signal strength is insufficient for reliable uplink transmissions from the wireless device to the serving node (e.g., 4G/5G base station or Wi-Fi access point) even though the downlink signal strength is sufficient for...