ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,561, issued on July 15, was assigned to JDRF ELECTROMAG ENGINEERING INC. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Autonomous provisioning of a decentralized network" was invented by Paul T. Quevedo (Scarborough, Canada), Elias Boukhers (Hamilton, Canada) and Roumanos Dableh (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example of an apparatus to provision a decentralized network is provided. The apparatus includes a memory storage unit to store a status identifier to indicating whether the apparatus is in a non-provisioned state or a provisioned state. The apparatus further includes a beacon transmitter to transmit an outgoing beacon signal and...