US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "System and method for increasing permitted session downtime" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,783, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for increasing permitted session downtime" was invented by Vaibhav Hemant Dixit (Redmond, Wash.), Saikrishna Arcot (Kirkland, Wash.), Ying Xie (Sammamish, Wash.) and Guohan Lu (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for increasing communication session downtime. A first computing device of a plurality of computing devices transmits a handshake signal to a second computing device of the plurality of computing devices at a predetermined time interval and the se...