ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,038, issued on April 22, was assigned to Valens Semiconductor Ltd. (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

"Uneven segmentation of data packets to reduce retransmission latency" was invented by Elad Kaplan (Ness Ziona, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for uneven segmentation of data packets to reduce retransmission penalty accumulated as a result of having to retransmit one or more of the last segments. The method includes segmenting a data packet into segments of different sizes, with generally larger segments in the first half and smaller segments in the second half, and transmitting the segments over an intermediate commun...