US Patent Issued to Attobahn on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for reducing network switching congestion using distributed orbital time-slot assignment" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,339, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Attobahn Inc. (Ashburn, Va.).

"Systems and methods for reducing network switching congestion using distributed orbital time-slot assignment" was invented by Richard A. Forde (Ashburn, Va.) and Darryl L. Gray (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system and method improve network efficiency through distributed cell switching using orbital time-slot multiplexing. Data flows are segmented into fixed-length cell frames by access nodes comprising an Instinctively Wise Integrated Circuit (IWIC) and an Atto-Second Multiplexer (ASM). The ASM assigns the cell frames to orbital t...