ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,299, issued on July 15, was assigned to Arm IP Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Reliance control in networks of devices" was invented by Damon Jay Civin (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Olen Gilbert (Austin, Texas), Lauri Ollinpoika Piikivi (Oulu, Finland), Tommi Matias Kasma (Oulu, Finland) and Robert George Taylor (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technology provides quantified reliance data for at least one of an electronic computing device node and a connection in network, the technology comprising instrumenting at least one of the device and the connection to generate da...