ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,107, issued on April 22, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Device clustering" was invented by Zahra Ferdowsi (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Michael Cieslak (Los Angeles), Michael David Marr (Monroe, Wash.), Aysegul Cansizoglu (Los Angeles), Xiaolin Shi (Santa Monica, Calif.), Hussein Mehanna (Los Gatos, Calif.), Caleb Ogden (Highland, Utah) and Yi Xu (Pasadena, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Clustering a plurality of client devices running an application as a function of a data structure such that the plurality of client devices are each assigned a cluster. Client devices having similar performance metrics are assig...