ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,844, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Net Insight AB (Solna, Sweden).

"Asymmetric delay compensation" was invented by Michael Andersson (Osterskar, Sweden), Magnus Danielsson (Stocksund, Sweden) and Per Lindgren (Strangnas, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an asymmetric link delay compensation method in which a plurality of calibration profiles maybe used for providing a common network time estimate in a communication network. The communication network comprises a node at least two virtual paths, VP, connecting to one or more sync nodes. The at least two VPs are each associated with one or more respective pre...