ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,534, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for guaranteeing deterministic latency in communication system" was invented by Chang-Ho Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Taesik Cheung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for guaranteeing deterministic latency in a communication system is proposed. The method of operating enqueue packet processing may include extracting cycle information of a received packet from the received packet, identifying at least one of enq_myQ, enq_mateQ, and enq_mateQ_hold state...