ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,916, issued on July 7, was assigned to All Purpose Networks Inc. (Martinsville, N.J.).

"Publish-subscribe broker network overlay system" was invented by Harvey Rubin (New York) and John Grossmann (Massapequa Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a publish-subscribe broker network that distributes data packets between authorized entities and includes one or more publish-subscribe brokers. Each publish-subscribe broker is reachable by an entity attempting to connect thereto via a transport network configured to transport IP packets. The publish-subscribe brokers are configured to check credentials of entities...