ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,947, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France) and Le Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives (Paris).

"System and method for managing packet transmission issues in high-performance computers" was invented by Ghassan Chehaibar (Nice, France) and Alexandre Louvet (Rambouillet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a High-Performance Computer that includes a plurality of nodes. Each node waits for a first time period after sending a packet, and retransmits the packet if an acknowledgement for the packet has not been received in the first time period. Each no...