ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,907, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Cortic Technology Corp. (Port Coquitlam, Canada).

"Decentralized distributed computing environment" was invented by Ye Lu (Coquitlam, Canada), Him Wai Ng (Port Coquitlam, Canada) and Zhen Wang (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, software architecture and network topology are provided to implement a decentralized distributed computing environment. In some embodiments, the novel network topology is configured as a mesh network such that individual hub devices are connected directly or indirectly with each other. An individual worker can be added to or removed...