ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,334, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and method for performing rate adaptation and multiplexing of constant bit rate (CBR) client data for transmission over a metro transport network (MTN)" was invented by Steven Scott Gorshe (Beaverton, Ore.) and Winston Mok (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for performing rate adaptation and multiplexing of constant bit rate (CBR) client data for transmission over a Metro Transport Network (MTN) by defining a plurality of plurality of generic mapping procedure (GMP) thread frames for a respective stream of two...