ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,346, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Solutran LLC (Minneapolis).

"Data transmission filtering through a customized filter list" was invented by Jason Lynn Prigge (Maple Grove, Minn.), Marcus Moreno (Minneapolis) and Barry J. Nordstrand (Excelsior, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are presented to improve the speed of shared network processing by filtering data using a filter list. The filter list filters the data submitted for analysis to the server system. Some data is processed locally, but the filtered data is processed at the server system. The local systems process similar data, but they use distinct d...