US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on May 13 for "Distributed domain name systems and methods" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,538, issued on May 13, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Distributed domain name systems and methods" was invented by Joshua Jesse Dowdy (Arlington, Wash.), Abraham Isaac Cabanilla (San Antonio) and Matthew Mosher (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing access to external client machine via a domain name system (DNS) of an internal network. A distributed DNS service maintains distributed DNS entries as external clients log on and/or log off of the internal network. In this manner, internal systems within the internal ne...