ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,796, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Systems, devices, and methods for network congestion control" was invented by Alexander Shpiner (Ramat Yishay, Israel), Yuval Shpigelman (Netanya, Israel) and Tal Mund (Herzelia, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments described herein provide a method for reducing congestion in a network using per-hop telemetry data and network adapters implementing such a method. As compared to conventional congestion control mechanisms, the method may include sharing telemetry data between flows on a per-hop basis to accelerate the convergence of ...