ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,434, issued on Aug. 19.

"System and method for traffic flow acceleration" was invented by Kamakshi Sridhar (Plano, Texas), Tushar Mulkar (Karnataka, India), Akash Manchanhalli Suresh (Bangalore, India) and Nilanjan Sarkar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for traffic flow acceleration including: retrieving a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Quick UDP Internet Connection (QUIC) traffic flow from the computer network; mapping the traffic flow to a subscriber; determining congestion control parameters associated with the traffic flow; determining subscriber buffer management par...