ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,409, issued on March 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Resource management and control for wireless communications" was invented by Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Yunjung Yi (Vienna, Va.) and Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more resources may be determined for wireless communications. A wireless device may apply an indication associated with a resource to one or more other resources. One or more conditions and/or parameters may be used to determine whether to use the indication for the one or more other resources."

The patent was f...