Ignore Blank in Counting Consecutive Values

I have a formula that calculates a count of consecutive cells:

UUUUUUPPUUUUUUEUUU

So the values returned would be 15U, 2P, and 0E since there are no consecutive Es.

That all works fine, but now I have to find a way to ignore if there is a blank space and have it still count:

UUUU UUPPUUUUUE UUU

I would still need it to give me the same values as the first line, ignoring that there is a blank.

Will it help if I provide the current formula?
=SUM(IF(FREQUENCY(IF(H10:AB10="E",COLUMN(H10:AB10)),IF(H10:AB10<>"E",COLUMN(H10:AB10)))>=11,FREQUENCY(IF(H10:AB10="E",COLUMN(H10:AB10)),IF(H10:AB10<>"E",COLUMN(G10:AB10)))))

No, each letter is in it's own cell.

I'm not sure that would work.

The issue is that I only need certain values counted if they are consecutive 6 or more.
So the formula I have now only calculates U if there are 6 or more consecutively. It will ignore all others. BUT I also need it to recognize if there is blank cell in the middle of those 6 and still calculate them-essentially ignoring the blank space.
So U U U U U U would be 6
But U U U U U U would also be 6. Right now the blank space causes a problem because it only sees it as 3 consecutive and won't return a value.

There is supposed to be spaces between that second line.
U U U U U U should return 6

U U U U U U need this to return 6 too.