ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,911, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Quality of service enhancements for video and extended reality applications over wireless networks" was invented by Jerome Henry (Pittsboro, N.C.), Robert E. Barton (Richmond, Canada), Indermeet S. Gandhi (San Jose, Calif.) and Brian D. Hart (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are a system and method for efficiently routing high-priority frames through a wireless network based on markings of the frames by a data link layer, a network layer, or an application layer in a five-layer protocol stack. When a real-time applicati...