ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,232, issued on July 1, was assigned to Noodle Technology Inc. (San Francisco).

"Delay tolerant decentralized network" was invented by Micha Anthenor Benoliel (San Francisco) and Kyude Karyan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include processing logic configured to execute instructions to cause a system to perform operations including receiving a beacon from a first intermediate device via a first network. The operations may also include identifying a characteristic of the beacon. The operations may include identifying, based on the characteristic of the beacon, a server that is associated with the beacon. Th...