ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,212, issued on June 24, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reverse affinity link exclusion for ultra-reliable low latency communication" was invented by Jakub Horn (San Jose, Calif.) and Peter Psenak (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of one embodiment provides reverse affinity link exclusion for a computer network. The system includes a memory and a processor. The memory is operable to store logical transmission links, logical receiving links, and metrics for data packets of nodes. The system determines a threshold value for node link reliability. The ...