ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,064, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for granting intermediary access to a data flow between non-kernel applications" was invented by Cahya Adiansyah Masputra (San Jose, Calif.), Eric Tsz Leung Cheng (Cupertino, Calif.), Sandeep Nair (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Shen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for emerging use case support in user space networking architectures. In one embodiment, an apparatus configured to segregate packet data based on a packet type is disclosed. The exemplary embodiment provides a custom data type registry that enables...