ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,346, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MAXLINEAR INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Out of order packet scheduler" was invented by Artem Kurakin (Hornsby, Australia), Richard Kinder (Eastwood, Australia) and Ilya Ostanin (Saint-Petersburg, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method may include identifying a first transmit identifier (TID) associated with a first node of a wireless network as ready to transmit and adding the first TID to a ready to transmit queue at a first point in time. The method may also include identifying a second TID associated with a second node of the wireless network as ready to transmit, and adding the...