ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,034, issued on May 26, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"End-to-end latency guarantee for downlink traffic" was invented by Lijun Dong (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lin Han (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a network device for achieving end-to-end latency guarantees, where the method includes: receiving, by a network device in a core network, a latency guarantee service (LGS) request message from a source node in a data network (DN), the LGS request message requesting to transmit traffic to an end device and comprising one or more of a LGS indicator, an end-to-end packet delay...