ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,740, issued on July 1, was assigned to CONVIDA WIRELESS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Dynamic fog service deployment and management" was invented by Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.), Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.) and Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The provision of fog services may be coordinated by a fog leader adapted to track capabilities and resources available at other fog nodes, and to receive and process requests and policies from entities seeking fog services. For example, the fog leader may divide tasks among several fog nod...