ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,003, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bandwidth utilization-based congestion control" was invented by Yanlei Zhao (Saratoga, Calif.), Arunachalam Ramanathan (Union City, Calif.), Alexander Krits (Austin, Texas), Yixin Zou (San Jose, Calif.), Zexing Jiang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Radhika Vyas (Cupertino, Calif.), Pavan Narasimhaprasad (Cedar Park, Texas) and Gabriel Tarasuk-Levin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for performing congestion control for a particular packet flow associated with a first machine operating in a network. The method i...