ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,784, issued on June 2, was assigned to CONNECTFREE Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Data transmission method, communication processing method, device, and communication processing program" was invented by Kristopher Andrew Tate (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method includes: a step in which each of a plurality of devices determines an IP address of each device based on a hash value calculated from a public key of each device according to a hash function; a step in which each of the plurality of devices holds state information reflecting a connection relationship between the devices and transmits a notification ...