ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,314, issued on July 1, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Duplicate message removal technique for improving retransmission success rate" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.) and Brian Waters (Angel Fire, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for duplicate message detection and removal. A method includes receiving a message tagged with a sequence number during one of a first timing window and a second timing window, wherein the first and second timing windows are consecutive recurring timing windows in a network. The method additionally includes sending a respon...