US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on June 17 for "Switching to mini-slots for transmission of urgent data" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,939, issued on June 17, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Switching to mini-slots for transmission of urgent data" was invented by Kallol Das (Pijnacker, Netherlands), Remco Litjens (Voorschoten, Netherlands), Wieger IJntema (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Haibin Zhang (Voorburg, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first method comprises transmitting data (83) of a first kind during a first part of a first time slot (ti1) of a plurality of time slots (ti1-ti4) of equal length according to a ...