ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,175, issued on May 27, was assigned to Emory University (Atlanta).

"Apparatus and method for determining metrics with respect to a partition" was invented by Sergio Luis Dias Lima Gramacho (Atlanta) and Avani Wildani (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems, devices, and methods provide agents that implement self-organized partitioning with the connectivity recovery through self-healing using local information. A method may include determining, by a wireless device, one or more metrics for each agent and/or for each partition of the one or more other agents using internal and neighboring state information from information ...