ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,716, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-layer edge architecture simulation" was invented by Nir Rozenbaum (Yoqneam Illit, Israel) and Maroon Ayoub (Fassuta, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment establishes a virtual representation of a network configuration, wherein the virtual representation of the network configuration comprises a plurality of layers corresponding to the network configuration. The embodiment generates a plurality of workloads to simulate with the virtual representation. The embodiment generates a plurality of workload statuses to simulate wit...