ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,819, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Edge utility system with distributed ledger verification for dynamic aggregation of edge resources" was invented by Amy N. Seibel (Newton, Mass.) and Victor Fong (Melrose, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes aggregating edge resources of a plurality of edge computing sites of an edge utility system, with the aggregated edge resources including edge resources provided by at least one user for utilization by one or more other users. The method further includes utilizing one or more portions of the aggregated edge resources to execute one...