ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,248, issued on April 29, was assigned to SOFTIRON Ltd. (London).

"Resource-sharing system with cryptographically enforced fair access" was invented by Mark Chen (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article of manufacture includes instructions that, when loaded and executed by a processor, configure the processor to, at a coordinator electronic device, initiate a round of electronic device resource requests from a plurality of electronic devices, receive a request for an electronic device resource from each of the electronic devices, provide a fair access scheme for access to the electronic device resource for each of the ...