ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,398, issued on April 8, was assigned to KWINGLE INC. (Trumbull, Conn.).

"Data communication system and method" was invented by James J. Montalto (Brookfield, Conn.), Lisa Cerbone-Montalto (Brookfield, Conn.), Brian Meehan (Fairfield, Conn.) and Rohit Singal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first mobile communication device is configured to transmit video and audio content to a second mobile communication device utilizing a server. The first mobile communication device, via the server, transmits a share request or "knock" with the second mobile communication device. The second device must either accept the request or...