ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,400, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Implementing deterministic traffic delivery in a time-sensitive networking system" was invented by Akram Sheriff (Newark, Calif.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.) and Pascal Thubert (Roquefort-les-Pins, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request from an access point to transmit to a TSN data payload to a wireless TSN station, identifying resource units (RUs) in a downlink channel, each RU comprising a set of RU tones, identifying access category (AC) queues, multiplex...