ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,612, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Packet transmission scheduling" was invented by Sarig Livne (Schanya, Israel), Hemanth Krishnan (Chandler, Ariz.), Adam Conyers (Phoenix), Chwei King Mok (Chandler, Ariz.) and Michael G. Lefevre (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples described herein relate to a network interface device comprising circuitry to cause transmission of packets based on transmission times and use of at least one of multiple time slot granular scheduling lists, wherein the multiple time slot granular scheduling lists comprise at least one list of a first time sl...