ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,602, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Snappi Inc. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Time-dependent machine-generated hinting" was invented by Peter Lepeska (Boston) and Devin Toth (Quincy, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments seek to improve prefetch hinting using time-dependent, machine-generated hints. Some embodiments operate in context of client machines in communication hinting machines that can develop information about whether and how resources are used in network transactions over time by collecting "resource samples." Each resource sample can identify rendering status information of a resource at a sample time. The time-bas...