ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,844, issued on July 8, was assigned to Carbon6 Technologies Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Network traffic monitoring and optimization engine" was invented by Albert Farhi (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Clayton Atchison (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and Kazi Ahmed (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification provides a novel network traffic monitoring and optimization engine. In one example system, a target platform and a plurality of content platforms are available for access by a plurality of client devices. The plurality of content platforms can carry primary content for direct consumption and secondary content for suggesting diversio...