ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,074, issued on July 22, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data packet sending method and apparatus" was invented by Menglong Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jie Li (Beijing) and Tong Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sending a data packet includes, sending, by a transmit node, a data packet based on a target sending rate and occupation of a data sending queue, where a sending rate for sending the data packet is proportional to the target sending rate, and the occupation of the data sending queue limits a quantity of data packets. The transmit node receives a feedback message from...