ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,634, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Axon Enterprise Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for distributed control" was invented by Daniel J. Wagner (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Mark A. Hanchett (Mesa, Ariz.), Aaron J. Kloc (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Tyler J. Conant (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems involving distributed control functions are described herein. Each member or device within the system has responsibility for controlling part of the system's behavior, and includes logic to determine what action, if any, will follow as a response to determining information or receiving information from other members or devi...