ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,082, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Adaptive network systems and methods for identifying and recovering lost packets" was invented by Hadi Khodabandeh (Irvine, Calif.), Yong Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Tyler Griggs (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to systems and methods for transmitting data within a network. In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, nodes of the network may be configured to maintain invertible bloom lookup tables (IBLTs) based on received data packets and receive IBLTs from other nodes based on transmitted data packets...