ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,234, issued on April 8, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Provisioning edge layer to cloud layer connectivity for asset devices" was invented by Jason Bowden (Roswell, Ga.), Ambika Khatri (Bangalore, India) and Mani Kumar Bhasuri (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments described herein relate to provisioning edge layer to cloud layer connectivity for asset devices. In an embodiment, an application programming interface (API) payload to facilitate network provisioning related to a set of industrial assets within an industrial network system is received. Additionally, a set of ...