ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,176, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sanjay K. Rao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Communication utilizing reliable transport and unreliable protocols to devices" was invented by Sanjay K. Rao (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobile device applications may be enabled to function with greater reliability and performance with greater network visibility and control over the network infrastructure. A mobile device may be enabled with multiplexing across physical and virtual network interfaces. The mobile device may communicate with a server to access specific IP cell towers with wireless to wired offload capability or access po...