ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,431, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Congestion control method and apparatus" was invented by Heyang Liu (Nanjing, China), Hewen Zheng (Nanjing, China), Lei Han (Nanjing, China), Jinfeng Yan (Nanjing, China), Binghui Wu (Moscow), Huafeng Wen (Nanjing, China) and Peiying Tao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application describes a congestion control method and apparatus. In this application, a network device obtains time information of one or more congestion packets in a sent first data stream, where the one or more congestion packet carries a flag indicating a co...