US Patent Issued to Ookla on March 17 for "Method and system for benchmarking data connections based on congestion control" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,861, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ookla LLC (New York).

"Method and system for benchmarking data connections based on congestion control" was invented by Brennen Smith (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for benchmarking a data connection based on congestion control. In one embodiment, a request is received by a first device to perform a performance test of a first data connection between the first device and a second device. The first device transmits, via the first data connection and to the second device, test data according to a congestion window. The first device receives feedback ba...