ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,600, issued on March 3, was assigned to Digital Turbine Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Limited use links for data item distribution" was invented by Robert Burcham (Overland Park, Kan.), Kai-Min Sung (Foster City, Calif.) and Brandon Brent Ayers (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distribution server for controlling data item downloads maintains at least one download constraint for a respective data item. When a query for permission to download the data item is input from a user device, the distribution server checks whether the download constraints are met. When the respective download constraints are met, a response is sent to ...