ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,299, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Routing feedback data blocks via a prioritized feedback communication mechanism based on power" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago), Jason Arnold (Chicago), S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Joseph Jablonski (Chicago), Daniel Coombs (Chicago) and Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a database system is operable to receive a plurality of data blocks from a set of source nodes via a set of relay nodes. At least one feedback data block to be sent to at least one of the set of source nodes is generated. Feedback relay no...