US Patent Issued to NEC on June 16 for "Apparatus, method, and recording medium for measuring time of transmission by transmitting and receiving packets" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,253, issued on June 16, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus, method, and recording medium for measuring time of transmission by transmitting and receiving packets" was invented by Yuki Ashino (Tokyo), Takashi Hitani (Tokyo) and Miyu Yakumaru (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A measuring apparatus including: a transmission part transmitting a probe packet wherein a communication apparatus to be measured is arranged in a communication path destined for a destination-communication apparatus, a reception part receiving a response packet from destination-communication apparatus in response to the probe packet, a time-measuri...