ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,802, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Baskign Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for application layer protocol quality of service marking" was invented by Mehmet Toy (Allendale, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, an application device may generate a protocol data unit (PDU) associated with an application layer protocol, with the PDU including a header field. The application device may determine a priority level associated with the PDU. The application device may mark the header field with an indication of the priority level associated with the PDU. The application device...