US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Aug. 5 for "Loaning data connection capabilities for edge devices" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,956, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Loaning data connection capabilities for edge devices" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a connection management system is provided in multi-site target system. Resources for connections not needed at a point in time are loaned, from one entity to another in the connection management system."

The patent was filed on Sept. 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/...