US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 18 for "Network congestion detection and mitigation" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,920, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Network congestion detection and mitigation" was invented by Ratnesh Sah (Bedok, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network congestion occurs when the volume of data to be sent from one node to another, in a given time, exceeds the network's capacity. While all networks are susceptible to congestion, a wireless network of vehicles/moving vehicles are particularly sensitive as any delays in offloading acquired data may cause the vehicles/moving vehicles to pause operations (e.g., hover or land later return to a location) while waiting to send data. By moni...