ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,304, issued on June 23, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of protocol data unit (PDU) set discard policies" was invented by Yee Sin Chan (San Francisco), Zhu Ji (Cupertino, Calif.), Xiaodi Zhang (San Ramon, Calif.) and Curt Wong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of protocol data unit (PDU) set discard policies may include a first device which receives a first PDU of a PDU set. The first PDU may include information relating to a PDU set discard policy. The first device may receive one or more second PDUs of the PDU set within a time window. The ...