ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,016, issued on July 15.

"Techniques for discounting extensibility latency" was invented by Daniel Justin Mican (Sykesville, Md.), Damian Andres Fortuna (Rosario, Argentina), German Gaston Lena (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Luis Garrido Henriques de Miranda (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for discounting extensibility latency are described. A first service platform may receive, from a user via a client device, a first request to access extensible resources at a second service platform using the first service platform. In response to receiving the first request, the first service platform ...