ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,157, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Network congestion control in sub-round trip time" was invented by Serhat Arslan (Stanford, Calif.), Yuliang Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gautam Kumar (Fremont, Calif.) and Nandita Dukkipati (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for congestion control mechanisms to reduce data transmission queues and to increase link utilization through precise congestion signals and reduction of control loop delay. A congestion control system (CC) system can utilize Back-To-Sender (BTS) packets over (round trip time) RTT control lo...