ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,642, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Alias verification" was invented by Vien Nguyen (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to periodically verifying aliases, e.g., by causing cross-platform clients to periodically verify aliases with cross-platform servers to which they are subscribed. In various implementations, a global discovery server (GDS) may be queried for a mapping between an alias and a connection string of an input-output (I/O) channel hosted by a distributed control node (DCN). A cross-platform client may be subscribed to the I/O channe...