ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,535, issued on May 27, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Methods and systems for infrastructureless communication networks" was invented by Justin Wayne Caswell (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention may provide a decentralized infrastructure including efficient wireless communication, an infrastructureless communication network, a decentralized private network, securely communicating in a decentralized network perhaps using distributed ledger technology (62), named data networking (63), neural networks (85), or the like. Further embodiments may include consensus proces...