ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,914, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ibotta Inc. (Denver).

"Dynamic clustering of network nodes for mobile communications" was invented by Bryan Leach (Denver), Luke Swanson (Denver) and Garrick Wager (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for segmenting and grouping a plurality of network nodes into one or more clusters. Content may be delivered from a transmitting user node to a receiving user node based on which cluster the receiving user node resides. The grouping of the clusters may be dynamically updated in real-time based on user activity data. Such user activity data may be collected...