ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,630, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to alfaview Video Conferencing Systems Gmbh & Co. KG (Karlsruhe, Germany).
"Decentralized database, method for maintaining same, and conferencing application based thereon" was invented by Nikolaos Fostiropoulos (Karlsruhe, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decentralized database distributed among a plurality of subscriber terminals, which database is formed from a plurality of individual subscriber databases containing respective data records which are synchronized, or are synchronizable, with one another via data channels, in which the subscribers are grouped together to form a dynamically ...