US Patent Issued to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone on June 3 for "Congestion control method, congestion control device, and congestion control program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,329, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (Tokyo).

"Congestion control method, congestion control device, and congestion control program" was invented by Fumiaki Nagase (Musashino, Japan), Yu Ono (Musashino, Japan), Keita Kuriyama (Musashino, Japan), Masafumi Yoshioka (Musashino, Japan), Toshifumi Miyagi (Musashino, Japan), Hitoshi Hasegawa (Musashino, Japan), Kazuo Osaka (Musashino, Japan), Hayato Fukuzono (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroyuki Furuya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A congestion control method in an IP telephone system includes acquiring a number of simultaneous calls in one line shar...