ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,677, issued on May 20, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Server for sending new application portions to mobile wireless communications devices and related methods" was invented by Xianfeng Chen (Mississauga, Canada) and Orlin Vesselinov Stoev (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications system is to communicate with an application server storing a plurality of applications. The communications system includes a mobile wireless communications device configured to store at least one application from among the plurality of applications, the at least one application having stored version informati...