ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,469, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Queue protection with selective L4S use" was invented by Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.), Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Use of a preferential resource, such as a Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput queue of a device, may be selectively enabled based on past resource-requesting behavior of a sending application. A characteristic, such as an Explicit Congestion Notification bit, of network traffic transmitted by a sending application is detected during a data traffic congestion cond...