ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,510, issued on March 4, was assigned to Celona Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Directional flow based MTU management" was invented by Srinivasan Balasubramanian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided in which a first MTU (maximum transmission unit) size is determined messages traveling in a first direction along a path. A second MTU size is determined for messages traveling in a second direction along the same path. Messages are sent in the first and second directions based on the first and second MTU size, respectively. In some embodiments, different sizes are chosen for the DL MTU and the UL MTU. In so...