US Patent Issued to EMC IP Holding on March 18 for "Increasing device data confidence and operation via temporal and spatial analytics" (Massachusetts, Texas, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,293, issued on March 18, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Increasing device data confidence and operation via temporal and spatial analytics" was invented by Stephen J. Todd (Center Conway, N.H.), Marina Levina (Newton, Mass.) and Jason A. Shepherd (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes determining a spatial distribution of devices in a three dimensional physical environment, determining a polling frequency for each of the devices, receiving data generated by the devices, evaluating the data, and assigning a trust score to the data. The devices may take the form of respec...