ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,586, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ESEYE Ltd. (Surrey, Great Britain).

"Network aware API for distributed data processing" was invented by Larry Socher (Vienna, Va.) and Jon Darley (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism for controlling a function performed by an application running on a processing system of an electronic device. The processing system is configured to host an application programming interface, API, that facilitates access to information about static and/or dynamic values of communication networks over which the electronic device is able to communicate. The application makes use of th...