ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,488, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-stream scheduling for time sensitive networking" was invented by Kishore Kasichainula (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network interface device for implementing multi-stream scheduling for time sensitive networking includes direct memory access (DMA) circuitry, comprising: descriptor parsing circuitry to read a packet descriptor from a descriptor cache, wherein the packet descriptor includes at least one scheduling control parameter including: a launch time offset, a gate cycle offset, or a reduction ratio; wherein the packet descriptor is as...