ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,812, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"IP network QoS enabled by application category detection and session association" was invented by Gordon Yong Li (San Diego), Zibin Yu (Guangdong Province, China), Peilong Xia (Beijing), Xin Huang (Beijing) and Yunguang Tan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technical solutions can include a transmitter of a source device providing access to an application. The transmitter can be configured to detect a category of an application from a first packet to be transmitted from the source, determine a quality of service (QOS) for ...