ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,225, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Quality based load balancing for multipath routing in networks" was invented by Sudharsan Dhamal Gopalarathnam (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, one or more network links for transmitting data in a network may be selected based at least in part on a quality associated with the one or more network links. Link quality information associated with a plurality of links may be accessed and analyzed to determine which links to use for transmitting data. Link quality may be evaluated in combination with other link attributes to proa...