ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,957, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GROKIT DATA INC. (Issaquah, Wash.).

"Distributed actor-based information system and method" was invented by James A. Harding (Issaquah, Wash.), Scott Thibault (Colchester, Vt.), Jason A. Boatman (Georgetown, Texas) and Phillip A. Quinn (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, executed on a computing device, comprising: enabling a browsing session between a distributed actor and a web-browser; performing a code-driven replication of the browsing session for a third party, thus generating a replicated browsing session; and rendering the replicated browsing session fo...