ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,223, issued on April 29, was assigned to Clevernet Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automatic communication network control" was invented by Ivan Romero Ruiz (Barcelona, Spain), Francesco Ciaccia (Barcelona, Spain), Mario Nemirovsky (San Francisco) and Rene Serral-Gracia (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing transmission over a network by adjusting a flow control window based on one or more parameters obtained from one or more connections, applications or network conditions. In one embodiment a controller modifies the receiver TCP advertised window of one or several connections to match the end-to-end bandwidth-...