ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,746, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Matrox Graphics Inc. (Dorval, Canada).

"Realtime distribution of granular data streams on a network" was invented by Martin George Lafferty (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for an asynchronous media fabric service. The system includes at least one host configured with the asynchronous media fabric service. The asynchronous media fabric service is configured to: create and delete shared memory pools that are used to allow processes running on a single host direct access to grain data; send and receive grains from other hosts; and serve as an API end-point...