ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,013, issued on May 12, was assigned to Intergraph Corp. (Madison, Ala.).

"Identifying data assets needed in a wireless dead zone" was invented by Javier Buzzalino (Simpsonville, S.C.), Julio P. Roque (Coconut Grove, Fla.) and Peng Tang (Greer, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifying assets needed in a dead zone include determining that a mobile device communicating with a server system via a wireless communication service is destined for a wireless communication dead zone; predicting at least one data asset that will be needed by the mobile device for working offline in the wireless communication dead zone based on at least on...