US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Sept. 22 for "Methods and apparatus for determining and/or using propagation loss between a transmitter and a receiver based on terrain and clutter data" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,606, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for determining and/or using propagation loss between a transmitter and a receiver based on terrain and clutter data" was invented by Saul A. Torrico (Bethesda, Md.) and Rauf Hafeez (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for determining propagation loss between a transmitter and a receiver using terrain and clutter data and/or the utilization of the determined propagation loss for managing spectrum usage. An exemplary method includes the steps of: determining a f...