ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,317, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Roblox Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Network stack for transmission of application data over network connections" was invented by Khuzema Pithewan (San Mateo, Calif.), Michael White (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ethan Everett (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media. In some implementations, a method to transmit application data over a network connection may include receiving application data, determining a permitted data rate, shaping the application data received from each application of the plurality ...