ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,611, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hirschmann Automation and Control GmbH (Neckartenzlingen, Germany).
"Prioritization for time-deterministic firewalls" was invented by Tobias Heer (Frickenhausen, Germany) and Lukas Bechtel (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for allowing data packets in a network to arrive at the recipient at definable times. The method requires a firewall in a computer network. Each data packet is processed within the firewall according to filter rules. Each data packet which is transmitted through the firewall to a recipient is assigned a prioritization for pro...