ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,136, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for adaptive protocol caching in event-driven data communication networks" was invented by Joshua Cooper (Columbia, S.C.) and Charles Yeomans (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for adaptively caching network communication protocols provides improved efficiency and performance through a multi-level cache architecture. The system monitors performance metrics and synchronizes cache contents across distributed nodes using a hierarchical structure. Protocol cache requirements are predicted based on usage patterns,...