ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,858, issued on July 15, was assigned to STRONG FORCE IOT PORTFOLIO 2016 LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Packet coding based network communication" was invented by Tracey Ho (Pasadena, Calif.), John Segui (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Chun Meng (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Steven Blumenthal (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data communication between a first node and a second node includes forming one or more redundancy messages from data messages at the first node using an error correcting code and transmitting first messages from the first node to the second node over a data path, the transmitted first messages inc...