ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,548, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing distributed computing and storage resources" was invented by Chris Ergen (Littleton, Colo.), Jeffrey McSchooler (Parker, Colo.), Mark H. Gomez (Parker, Colo.) and Jennings Maxwell Orcutt (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for utilizing distributed computing and storage resources intelligently select processing and/or storage resources of cell sites, data centers and/or other computing nodes and tap into these available processing and data storage resources to harness these resources on behalf of othe...