US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 17 for "Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,982, issued on March 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network" was invented by Alan Cheng (Reston, Va.), John Phillip Marquiss Jr. (Reston, Va.), Chanwook Park (Arlington, Va.), Thomas Neumark (Point of Rocks, Md.), Ahmad Imad Salem (Potomac, Md.) and William Vincent Elliott (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic service discovery and inter-service communications in a peer-to-peer network are disclosed. A device connected to a peer-to-peer network multicasts information abo...