ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,345, issued on March 11, was assigned to Accelitas Inc. (Petaluma, Calif.).

"Centralized validation of network call parameters on distributed networks using probability models" was invented by Yi Chen (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gregory Morris Cote (Petaluma, Calif.), Stephen Krawczyk (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Philip George Quick (Hamilton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for centralized validation of potential network calls, such as calls proposing database transactions, on a distributed system. The distributed system may include multiple systems that apply independent criteria for validating proposals, ...