ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,506, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bentley Systems Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Serverless code service" was invented by Keith A. Bentley (Elverson, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In example embodiments, techniques are described for implementing a code service for managing codes for elements in a digital twin of infrastructure according to an edge computing paradigm. The techniques may use an "edge base," wherein each edge computing device (e.g., a client computing device or VM) executes a code service that maintains a local, periodically-synchronized copy of a portion of a code database for the digital twin. A cloud container of a b...