ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,806, issued on June 24, was assigned to YAHOO AD TECH LLC (New York).

"Computerized systems and methods for distributed file collection and processing" was invented by Martin Boyle (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for distributed file collection and processing. According to certain embodiments, a producer system may detect a producer configuration file that specifies a file type, identify at least one file of the specified file type, and send the at least one identified file to a collector system. A conductor system may receive a request from a consumer system and allocate the at least one iden...