ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,733, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Edge network peer-to-peer asset distribution" was invented by Bradley K. Goodman (Nashua, N.H.), Joseph Caisse (Burlington, Mass.), Eric Joseph Bruno (Shirley, N.Y.) and Daniel E. Cummins (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing an edge compute environment comprising endpoint devices and an orchestrator are disclosed. In particular, an internal peer-to-peer file sharing infrastructure exclusive to the edge compute environment is established using the endpoint devices and the orchestrator. The internal peer-to-peer file ...