ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,372, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Facilitating portable, reusable, and sharable internet of things (IoT)-based services and resources" was invented by Shao-Wen Yang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nyuk Kin Koo (Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia) and Yen-Kuang Chen (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is described for facilitating portable, reusable, and shareable Internet of Things-based services and resources according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, described herein, includes selecting a recipe, wherein the recipe includes instructions associated with a first trigger to activ...