ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,032, issued on May 26, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"System for latency normalization" was invented by Daniel Todd Cohn (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Mitchell Bernard Skiba (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy Dennis Crain (Seattle) and Dandan Wang (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Variations in latency, out-of-order, and duplication may occur for incoming packets delivered via a network including a constellation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. An incoming packet that comprises time data and a sequence number is received at a user terminal. A delivery deadline time (deadline) is determined for the ...