ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,848, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cradlepoint Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Method and apparatus for forward error correction at the IP layer with loss adaptive overhead minimization" was invented by Natarajan Venkataraman (Bangalore, India), Prashant Pai (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Deepak Nair (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented systems and methods for Forward Error Correction (FEC) at the IP-Layer with adaptive bandwidth overhead minimization in a packet transmission network, the system including an FEC encoder to process IP packets and generate FEC encoded packets and repair packets, an FEC decoder to rec...