ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,616, issued on July 21, was assigned to WhiteStar Communications Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Geographical tracking of network content in a content oriented network and selective containment within geographical boundaries" was invented by Billy Gayle Moon (Farragut, Tenn.), William Victor Moon (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Benjamin Henry Derosier Thomas (Chester, Va.), Logan Andrew Miller (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Marcus W. Fath (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a secure executable container executed by a network device, a request to initiate a secure peer-to-peer transfer of a network ...