ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,060, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Service download optimization for nanotech mesh" was invented by Pierre-Yves Chibon (Saint-Pol-de-Leon, France) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford City, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes determining characteristics of nodes of a mesh network and selecting one or more nodes of the mesh to receive a payload in view of the characteristics of the plurality of nodes of the mesh network. The method further includes pushing the payload to the one or more selected nodes of the mesh network, wherein the one or more nodes propagate the payload to remaining ...