ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,004, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cross-layer and cross-access technology traffic splitting and retransmission mechanisms" was invented by Menglei Zhang (Portland, Ore.) and Jing Zhu (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS), which is a programmable framework that provides mechanisms for the flexible selection of network paths in a multi-access (MX) communication environment, based on an application's needs. The present disclosure discusses dynamic traffic splitting mechanisms, cross-layer and cross access techn...