US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on March 25 for "Computing device and computing method for computing packet transmission time" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,705, issued on March 25, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Computing device and computing method for computing packet transmission time" was invented by Chien-Hsun Liao (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Wei-Hsuan Chang (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes: a storage circuit, for storing an arbitration interframe space (AIFS) time, at least one expected value of at least one backoff time, a preamble time, a short interframe space (SIFS) time and an acknowledgement (ACK) time; a first computing circuit, for computing a payload time according to a packet length and a packet rate;...