US Patent Issued to ABB Schweiz on Sept. 23 for "Congestion handling in time sensitive networks through coordination between network segments" (German, Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,346, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).

"Congestion handling in time sensitive networks through coordination between network segments" was invented by Alexander Gogolev (Dachau, Germany), Johan Akerberg (Vasteras, Sweden) and Roland Braun (Niederkassel Lulsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a time-sensitive network (TSN) includes splitting data stream on network elements into a "preempting" class and a "preemptable" class based on a mapping from priority labels; forwarding the data streams to respective next-hop network elements, wherein the forwarding of "preemp...