ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,148, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transport layer network recovery for packet-switched computer networks" was invented by Prashant Ranjan (San Jose, Calif.) and Abdulkader Kabbani (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for transport layer network recovery on a packet-switched computer network includes a source computing device with a processor that executes a network traffic communication module, a load balancing module, and a congestion control module. The network traffic communication module provisions a plurality of source ports to transmi...