ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,849, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Architecture Technology Corp. (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

"Data synchronization in response to disruptions in networks" was invented by Barry Trent (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Jafar Al-Gharaibeh (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and systems to send/receive medical data from one or more electronic devices to a secondary medical unit in delayed, intermittently-connected, low-bandwidth (DIL) environments. An application executing on the electronic devices may, in response to detecting a disruption within a communication network, execute an offline communicatio...