ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,659, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DELOS DATA INC. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"API service layer for scheduling forwarding of results computed by endpoint processing units through a network" was invented by Daniel P. Daly (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Edward V. E. Doe (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alain J. E. Gravel (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method of executing a distributed application with multiple endpoint processing units (EPUs) that perform computations for the distributed application. At a set of one or more scheduling servers, the method receives multiple API (application programming in...