ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,057, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"User interface display techniques for traffic slicing across heterogeneous links" was invented by Timothy J. Arganbright (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) and Robert J. Mourlam (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A traffic slicing visualization system receives user selections for specific path types to visualize, then retrieves metrics for each potential path. The potential paths are characterized according to the metrics and assigned a visualization corresponding to path type. The potential paths are then rendered according to the assigned visuali...