ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,862, issued on June 24, was assigned to PME IP PTY LTD (Richmond, Australia).

"Method and system for transferring data to improve responsiveness when sending large data sets" was invented by Detlev Stalling (Berlin) and Malte Westerhoff (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Most of the internet traffic today is carried out via the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The main advantage of TCP is that it provides reliable data transfer to the application layer and simplifies programming. The protocol maximizes data throughput but may also lead to noticeable transmission delay in wide area networks (WAN). A client-server based medical...