ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,677, issued on March 17, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Error correction with proactive packet replacement for real-time data streaming" was invented by Ermin Sakic (Munich), Rajesh Medisetty (Hyderabad, India), Sujit Kumar Sinha (Hyderabad, India) and Mohamadreza Marandian Hagh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques that improve efficiency and quality of data streaming in time-sensitive network communications. The techniques include but are not limited to proactive replacement of packets in network communications that use forward error correction tec...