ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,716, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CLOSTRA INC. (San Francisco).

"Newnode: decentralized content distribution network" was invented by Stanislav Shalunov (Concord, Calif.) and Gregory Hazel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that downloads content to a local device using a decentralized content distribution network is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a request from an application to download content using the decentralized content distribution network. In addition, the device determines a plurality of nodes in the decentralized content distribution network t...