ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,717, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nant Holdings IP LLC (Culver City, Calif.).

"Distributed network interfaces for application cloaking and spoofing" was invented by Thomas M. Wittenschlaeger (Flowery Branch, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods associated with distributing an application's network interface over nodes of a networking fabric are presented. Nodes of the fabric can operate as interface modules, each taking on a role or responsibility for a portion of the application's network address including IP address, port assignments, or other portions of the network address. Interface modules of the network...