ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,317, issued on June 10, was assigned to Convida Wireless LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Permission based resource and service discovery" was invented by Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Donald A. Fleck (Emmaus, Pa.), Richard P. Gorman (Ivyland, Pa.), Nicholas J. Podias (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.) and Zhuo Chen (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current discovery mechanisms lack capabilities, such as capabilities related to permissions associated with a given registrant for example. In an example embodiment...