ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,071, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Systems and methods for managing packet latency" was invented by Ankit Sajjan Kumar Bansal (Milpitas, Calif.), Manoj Lakshmy Gopalakrishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vahid Tabatabaee (Potomac, Md.) and Rahul Durve (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network switch includes an input port configured to receive a first data packet comprising a header of metadata and a payload of a plurality of cells. The network switch includes a controller configured to determine, using at least the metadata, an eligibility of directing the...