ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,752, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for a scalable source notification mechanism for in-network events" was invented by Amir Baniamerian (Gatineau, Canada), Xingjun Chu (Ottawa), Yashar Ganjali (North York, Canada), Ali Munir (Kanata, Canada) and Ashkan Sobhani (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method and apparatus to provide notification of change events for microburst mitigation. The method is used by a sending device and includes tracking changes in scheduled data to be sent in a traffic flow and identifying a positive change i...