US Patent Issued to Raytheon on June 3 for "Packet rerouting to avoid congestion in a network" (Virginia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,330, issued on June 3, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Packet rerouting to avoid congestion in a network" was invented by Paul C. Hershey (Ashburn, Va.) and Mu-Cheng Wang (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a method includes receiving a packet at a first node from a second node, wherein the first node and the second node are part of a network; determining if congestion exists in a primary route used by the packet; processing a packet drop event to establish a secondary route for the packet in response to determining that the congestion exists in the primary route; and restoring use of the primar...