ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,748, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Yellcast Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).
"Device-to-device communication system with intermediated connection server to allow for user control of communication paths" was invented by Ganesan Venkatakrishnan (San Carlos, Calif.), Thomas William Ellenby (San Jose, Calif.), Peter Ellenby (San Carlos, Calif.) and William Foster (Tucson, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system provides an intermediated server that allows creation of communication channels between a first mobile device and a second mobile device based on a first identifier and a second identifier associated with the first mobile dev...