ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,028, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Eluvio Inc. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Decentralized content fabric" was invented by Michelle Munson (Berkeley, Calif.) and Serban Simu (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, devices, computer program products, and methods implementing aspects of a decentralized content fabric. In some implementations, one or more processors are configured to execute a software stack to define a fabric node of a plurality of fabric nodes of an overlay network situated in an application layer differentiated from an internet protocol layer. The defined fabric node...