US Patent Issued to Viasat on April 29 for "Passive measurement of communication flows" (California, Massachusetts, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,238, issued on April 29, was assigned to Viasat Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Passive measurement of communication flows" was invented by Jae Won Chung (Lexington, Mass.), Ankitkumar N. Patel (Carlsbad, Calif.), Girish Chandran (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Anil K. Agarwal (North Potomac, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for communications are described. One or more flows between a node and one or more other nodes in a communication network may be monitored over a time period. During the monitoring, it may be identified that, during a subset of the time period, communications over at least one of the flows were re...