ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,178, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Data stream analytics at service layer" was invented by Sneha Aman Singh (Issaquah, Wash.), Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Gregory S. Sternberg (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), Shamim Akbar Rahman (Cote St. Luc, Canada) and Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular and distributed architecture for data stream processing and analysis is described to incorporate data stream analytics capabilities, called Data Stream Analytics Service (DSAS) in the IoT/M2M service layer. Each service layer node hosting...