ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,229, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to UNIFIED SENTINEL DATA NETWORKS LLC (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.).

"Autonomous distributed wide area network having control plane and order management on a blockchain" was invented by Paul Valenzuela (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and Christian Johnny Martinez (East Rockaway, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous distributed wise area network (AD-WAN) includes several nodes, where each node connects a local area network to an open wide area network, and provides tunnels over the open wide area network to other nodes in the AD-WAN so that computing resources behind each node can communicate as if ...