ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,735, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Methods and protocols for user centric communication and compute supporting compute resource sharing and network connectivity resource sharing" was invented by Bong Ho Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Doru Calin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The method may be performed by a device. In certain configurations, the device provides a distributed device cloud function (DDCF) for handling communication for the device with one or more neighboring devices...