ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,395, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for congestion notification in transport nodes" was invented by Mark T. Watts (Newport, R.I.), David Gene Watkins (Greensburg, Pa.) and Luay Jalil (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to a transport congestion control notification service. The transport congestion control notification service may include providing congestion notification by a network device according to a schedule. The congestion notificat...