ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,568, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Round trip time (RTT) measurement based upon sequence number" was invented by Mohammadreza Attar (Cambridge, Mass.), Navindra Yadav (Cupertino, Calif.), Abhishek Ranjan Singh (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vimalkumar Jeyakumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Shashidhar Gandham (Fremont, Calif.) and Roberto Fernando Spadaro (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for determining a packet's round trip time (RTT) in a network. A system can receive information of a packet sent by a component of the network an...