ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,468, issued on May 13, was assigned to TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY (Beijing).

"Multipath transmission control method and device oriented to deadlines of data blocks" was invented by Yong Cui (Beijing) and Xutong Zuo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multipath transmission control method oriented to deadlines of data blocks, includes: allocating transmission paths and timeslots to multiple data blocks to be sent at a sender according to heterogeneous attributes of the multiple data blocks and current network conditions, wherein the heterogeneous attributes comprise deadlines, sizes and priorities of the multiple data blocks; determini...