ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,549, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Device and method for queues release and optimization based on run-time adaptive and dynamic gate control list strategy" was invented by Ahmed Gharba (Munich), Ming Li (Nanjing, China), Francisco Fons Lluis (Munich) and Angela Gonzalez Marino (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is configured to: obtain a state of each of a plurality of queues of a network node; determine, based on the states of the queues, whether the utilization of one or more queues exceeds one or more thresholds; generate one or more new entries for a gate contro...