ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,969, issued on March 17, was assigned to DK Crown Holdings Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for selective information access based on network performance" was invented by Peter Wright (Manahawkin, N.J.), Gregory Andrew Lozeau (Marshfield, Mass.) and Stephen Anthony Rose (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for selectively providing selective information access based on network performance are disclosed. A system maintains application state information for a protected network session involving multiple client devices accessing the application. The system generates latency metrics for each client based...