ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,241, issued on April 7, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Distributed data processing system and distributed data processing method" was invented by Kai-Hsiang Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Hung-Chun Chou (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tung-Chan Tsai (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chieh-Sheng Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Shih-Hao Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Wen-Cheng Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data processing system and a distributed data processing method are provided. The distributed data processing system includes a computing device and at least one additional co...