ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,359, issued on June 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Media aware RTP packet dropping" was invented by Lijun Dong (San Diego) and Renwei Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for video data communication in a network includes receiving, by a node in the network, an Internet protocol (IP) data packet. The IP data packet includes an IP network layer header and an IP network layer payload. The IP network layer payload is parsed, by the node, to detect a Network Abstraction Layer Unit (NALU). The NALU includes a NALU header and a NALU payload. Priority informat...