US Patent Issued to Missing Link Electronics on March 31 for "Tightly-coupled, loosely connected heterogeneous packet based transport" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,898, issued on March 31, was assigned to Missing Link Electronics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Tightly-coupled, loosely connected heterogeneous packet based transport" was invented by Nils Endric Schubert (San Jose, Calif.), David Epping (Neu-Ulm, Germany), Andreas Braun (Neu-Ulm, Germany) and Ulrich Langenbach (Neu-Ulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Tightly-coupled, loosely connected distributed systems can be implemented more energy efficient and optimized for computational overhead via multi-protocol heterogeneous packet-based transport. When receiving a plurality of packets from a root complex where contents of each packet...