ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,845, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low latency, low loss, scalable throughput latency improvement" was invented by Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada) and Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) latency improvements may be provided. Improving L4S can include determining traffic in a L4S queue has crossed above a first threshold. In response to determining the traffic in the L4S queue has crossed above the first threshold, a priority of the L4S queue is increased. When it is determined th...