ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,370, issued on June 2, was assigned to Dolby Network Technologies LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Distributed time-sensitive network (TSN) scheduler" was invented by Stephen F. Bush (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Prabhu Janakaraj (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication network configured to support time-sensitive interconnection communication is disclosed. In one example, the communication network comprises: communication network components, each configured to provide a functionality for data communication from a source device across the communication network to a destination device and a processor arranged to configure at lea...