ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,844, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for error-detecting code-based packet transmission acknowledgement" was invented by Yevgeny Yankilevich (Tirat Carmel, Israel), Assaf Shacham (Zichron Yaakov, Israel), Konstantin Taranov (Zurich), Mahmoud S. Elhaddad (Newcastle, Wash.) and Dongwook Lee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a plurality of packets transmitted from a first computing device to a second computing device. A packet sequence number associated with each packet is identif...