ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,362, issued on May 19, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Intelligent wireless broadband cooperative model" was invented by Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.) and Howard Lang (Wayside, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system that evaluates a need for additional data streaming resources at the device, and determines that a set of cooperating devices, located within a predetermined distance, is configured for sharing data streaming resources. The device receives the requested data from the cooperating devices in simultaneo...