ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,515, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically placing tasks into edge nodes based on reputation scores" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Binoy Thomas (Kozhikode, India) and Lakshmi K R (Kochi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes dynamically assigning reputation scores to a plurality of tasks, and dynamically assigning reputation scores to a plurality of edge nodes. The method further includes dynamically placing the tasks into the edge nodes bas...