ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,604, issued on July 8, was assigned to Discern Science International Inc. (Tuscon, Ariz.).

"Distributed discernment system" was invented by Sailesh Saxena (Bellaire, Texas), Aaron Elkins (San Diego), David Mackstaller (Tucson, Ariz.), Brad Walls (Tucson, Ariz.), Anmol Bagbai (Bangalore, India), Sudheer George (Kottayam, India), Vellingiri Venkatachalam (Tiruppur, India), Veera Venkata Durga Kalepusubrahmanyam (Hyderabad, India), Surekha Aray (Hyderabad, India) and Srilaxmi Butukuri (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of a distributed discernment system including a discernment server and a communications interfa...