ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,618, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Convida Wireless LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Overlay resource trees in a communication network" was invented by Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Catalina Mihaela Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.) and Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resources on a host may be typically organized in a tree structure. In existing service layer technologies, the originators generating data may typically store their resources in default locations in such a tree, resu...