ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,757, issued on April 1, was assigned to Convida Wireless LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Automated relationship management of service layer entities in a communications network" was invented by Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Catalina Mihaela Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.), Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.), Jiwan Ninglekhu (Conshohocken, Pa.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.) and Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to automate managing of relationships between IoT entities (e.g., devices, app...