ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,797, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic packet re-ordering, discarding, and flow switching" was invented by Ali Esswie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio access network node transmits a packet discard indication to configure a user equipment with indications that the node may discard packets corresponding to an indicated flow or corresponding to a flow received via an indicated resource. The packet discard indication configures the user equipment not to send a negative acknowledgement that a packet was not received via an indicated flow upon receiving an out-of-seque...