ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,703, issued on May 27, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich).
"Messaging in distributed networks" was invented by Dominic Williams (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jan Camenisch (Thalwil, Switzerland), Allen Clement (Birmensdorf, Switzerland), David Derler (Horgen, Switzerland) and Mariu Drijvers (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a distributed network comprising a plurality of subnets. Each of the plurality of subnets comprises a plurality of nodes. The network is configured to run a set of computational units and to assign each of the computational units t...