ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,293, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Migration of computational units in distributed networks" was invented by Jan Camenisch (Thalwil, Switzerland), Andrea Cerulli (Zurich, Switzerland), David Derler (Horgen, Switzerland), Manu Drijvers (Zurich, Switzerland), Roman Kashitsyn (Pfaffikon ZH, Switzerland) and Dominic Williams (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a computer-implemented method for operating a distributed network. The distributed network comprises a plurality of subnets embodied as replica...