ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,989, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Flow-trimming based congestion management" was invented by Keith D. Underwood (Powell, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piece of networking equipment facilitating efficient congestion management is provided. During operation, the equipment can receive, via a network, a plurality of packets that include portions of a data segment sent from a sender device to a receiver device. The equipment can identify, among the plurality of packets, one or more payload packets comprising payload of the data segment, and at least a header packet...