ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,389, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Communication controller and method for transmitting time-critical data within a communication system" was invented by Sven Kerschbaum (Furth, Germany) and Stephan Home (Schwabach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for transmitting time-critical data within a communication system, wherein selected datagrams are assigned to data streams and transmitted from first communication devices to second communication devices on paths containing third communication devices, where a superordinate communication controller ascertains a respective path for a respective data s...