ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,234, issued on April 7, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Drone electronic mesh for online network services (DEMONS) implementing cryptographic operations" was invented by Jeffrey J. Stapleton (O'Fallon, Mo.) and Peter Bordow (Fountain Hills, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The arrangements disclosed herein relate to systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for a network of plurality of roving cryptography devices. Each of the plurality of roving cryptography devices includes a locomotion system configured to move each of the plurality of roving cryptography devices to a respe...