ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,329, issued on June 17, was assigned to UMBRA Technologies Ltd. (UK) (British Virgin Islands, Great Britain).

"System and method for content retrieval from remote network regions" was invented by Joseph E. Rubenstein (Beijing), Carlos Eduardo Ore (Saint-Herblain, France), Jorn Allan Dose Knutsen (Oslo, Norway), Fred Broussard (Indianapolis) and Thibaud Auguste Bernard Jean Saint-Martin (Aubignan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for retrieving regional content via remote access point servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a network system for content retrieval from remote network ...