ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,891, issued on March 31, was assigned to Vay Technology GmbH (Berlin).

"Congestion control applying adaptive path selection" was invented by Damien Feneyrou (Berlin) and Ralf Globisch (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods for determining one or more data paths of a network link for transmitting data packets of a data stream for load balancing the data across the paths while avoiding saturation of the network link and/or alleviating congestion of the network link. The selection of the one or more paths may be performed by adaptively modifying a redundancy of the data packets being transmitted on the...