ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,299, issued on Dec. 2.

"Data packet queue in network computing systems" was invented by Russell E. Fowles (Pleasant Grove, Utah), Chase Kitteridge (Pleasant Grove, Utah) and Michael Bonner (Pleasant Grove, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for data ingestion, database management, and data security. A method includes determining that a receiver device is offline and cannot communicate with a server. The method includes providing a plurality of data packets to a data packet queue and receiving an update to an existing data packet stored within the data packet queue. The method further includes minimizing ...