ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,028, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Method and system for traffic engineering supporting real-time applications" was invented by Veerendra Boodannavar (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for traffic engineering in support of real-time applications. A user equipment (UE) can detect a real-time application running on the UE, assess a link health corresponding to the real-time application, and transmit a payload including the link health to a peer device via WiFi communications. To detect the real-time application, the UE can receive traffic symptoms or applicati...