ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,034, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Rosa, Calif.).

"Methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a distributed infrastructure" was invented by Steven Paul Goldstein (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Keith Charles Thompson (Fort Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing a distributed infrastructure, the method comprising: at a main distributed infrastructure controller (MDIC): sending one or more broadcast or advertisement messages via one or more mechanisms for notifying a client or a sub distributed infrastructure controller (SDIC); initiating an authentication ser...