ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,051, issued on May 5, was assigned to Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Beijing).

"Leo satellite congestion control routing method" was invented by Jiaxin Zhang (Beijing), Kaiwei Wang (Beijing), Xing Zhang (Beijing), Rui Li (Beijing), Zhaoyang Chang (Beijing), Yilong Zhang (Beijing) and Hang Lu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite congestion control routing method is disclosed, including: Step 1: A LEO satellite periodically detecting queue lengths of a plurality of ports and informing a Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite of queue lengths of congested ports in the plurality ...