ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,555, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Systems, methods, and devices for queue entry monitoring" was invented by Vipin Kumar Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Lee Helmick (Broomfield, Colo.) and Chun-Chu Chen-Jhy Archie Wu (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving, at a device, an indication based on an entry submitted to a queue, obtaining, based on the indication, a measurement for the entry, encoding the measurement to generate an encoded measurement, and storing the encoded measurement. The encoding may include one or more of delta encoding, en...