ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,073, issued on March 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Congestion control method, apparatus and system, device and medium" was invented by Kun Yang (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoquan Hua (Shenzhen, China) and Jianfeng Ding (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A congestion control method, apparatus and system, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The congestion control method, which is applied to a first gateway, may include: monitoring node state information of a second gateway, where the second gateway is a collaboration gateway of the first gateway; and performing at least one of: ...