ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,609, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enforcement of end-to-end transaction latency" was invented by Edward Grinshpun (Freehold, N.J.), Bilgehan Erman (Weehawken, N.J.) and Catello Di Martino (Uberlandia, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments for supporting enforcement of end-to-end transaction latency for transaction-based applications and services are presented herein. The enforcement of a total end-to-end transaction latency for a transaction of a transaction-based application or service may be supported by associating a transaction latency budget with the tran...