ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,165, issued on April 29, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Counting packet loss in sequence recovery method" was invented by Bernard Francois St-Denis (Ottawa), Allen Lengacher (Kanata, Canada) and Feng Xian (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sequence recovery method is executed by a node in a time-sensitive network configured to transmit and receive packets The method includes providing a state variable, having a first state in which a packet loss counter is disabled, and a second state in which the packet loss counter is enabled. The packet loss counter can only be incremented to count lost packets wh...