ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,390, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEOATOMIC LLC (Las Vegas).

"Overlay network for improved real-time packet flows" was invented by Joseph Williams (Tucson, Ariz.) and Duke Hong (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An overlay network system includes point-of-presence (POP) devices each comprising a telemetry component, a billboard agent, and a packet routing daemon. The telemetry components generate latency measurements for the POP on which each is disposed. A centralized billboard service provides border gateway protocol (BGP) announcements and point-of-presence (POP) peering decisions to each of the billboard agent co...