Q44

Consider a $\text{TCP}$ connection operating at a point of time with the congestion window of size $12$ $\text{MSS}$ (Maximum Segment Size), when a timeout occurs due to packet loss. Assuming that all the segments transmitted in the next two $\text{RTTs}$ (Round Trip Time) are acknowledged correctly, the congestion window size (in $MSS$) during the third $\text{RTT}$ will be __________.