ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,991, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (Chongqing, China).

"Joint optimization method for path selection and gate scheduling in time-sensitive networking" was invented by Min Wei (Chongqing, China), Xingbin Fang (Chongqing, China), Mengfei You (Chongqing, China), Chengjie Huo (Chongqing, China), Ping Wang (Chongqing, China) and Wei Xu (Chongqing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint optimization method for path selection and gate scheduling in time-sensitive networking comprises S1, a CNC finding a TSN topology, and abstracting same into a network directed graph; S2, a ter...