Missing Link Electronics has been awarded US Patent 11,356,388 on Real-Time Multi-Protocol Heterogeneous Packet-Based Transport which covers real-time and time-synchronization aspects when tunneling packets such as PCI Express (PCIe) Transaction-Layer Packets (TLP) over reliable TCP/IP over 1/10/25/50/100G Ethernet. This extends the range of PCIe and enables building distributed systems based on PCIe, or other packed-based protocols.