ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,303, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Offloading a task from an edge server that is integrated with a moving vehicle" was invented by Charan Acharya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India), Sudhakar T. Seshagiri (Bangalore, India), Prasanna Alur Mathada (Bangalore, India) and Shwetha Gopalakrishna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for offloading a task from an edge server that is integrated with a moving vehicle. One or more tasks are executed while performing monitoring of hardware and software components. In response to the monitoring, a failure ...