ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,179, issued on July 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for inter-domain configuration of time-sensitive networks" was invented by Janos Farkas (Kecskemet, Hungary), Balazs Varga (Budapest, Hungary) and Gyorgy Miklos (Pilisborosjeno, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) domains (30) include centralized entities (32. 34) for establishing and managing intra- and inter-domain TSN streams, with the inter-domain TSN streams based on an advantageous approach to inter-domain advertisement of respective end stations (40) operating as talkers and liste...