ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,224, issued on April 7, was assigned to Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Mobile peer-to-peer networks and related applications" was invented by William Zajac (La Crescenta, Calif.), Prashant Abhyankar (Burbank, Calif.), Gregory I. Gewickey (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Rana Brahma (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for the delivery of media content held in the peer-to-peer network to a vehicle in a local subgroup of the P2P network, and for providing an automated process for P2P networks for transferring of physical articles or electronic data p...