ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,226, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"MP-DCCP proxy to enable multipath transmission of DCCP data packets between a sender and a receiver" was invented by Markus Amend (Nidda, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packet conversion device includes: a first single path interface arranged for data packet transmission over one communication path or a first multipath interface arranged for data packet transmission over at least two communication paths, wherein the data traffic transmitted over the first single path interface or the first multipath interface is non-Multipath-Datagram Congestion C...