ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,029, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Access load control in peer-to-peer networks" was invented by Biljana Badic (Munich) and Babar Qaisrani (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations relate to identifying an event disrupting connectivity to a first network; determining, for an apparatus, that the apparatus has a connection to a second network; transmitting a message indicating to one or more neighboring devices that the apparatus has network connectivity; receiving a first relay request from a first device and a second relay request from a second device; forwarding, using the...