ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,850, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Virtual dual queue core stateless active queue management (AQM) for communication networks" was invented by Szilveszter Nadas (Budapest, Hungary), Ferenc Fejes (Budapest, Hungary), Sandor Laki (Budapest, Hungary) and Gergo Gombos (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling data packets by a communication node in a communication network, the method comprising storing received data packets in at least two physical queues, wherein a first of said at least two physical queues is associated with low latency data packets...