ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,042, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Peer in hybrid peer-to-peer network and method of setting path between peers and method of communicating between peers" was invented by Wook Hyun (Daejeon, South Korea), Changkyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea) and Mi Young Huh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of setting a path between peers included in a hybrid P2P network is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting, by a first peer, a primary path setting message for setting a primary path between the first peer and a second peer to the se...