ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,385, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing security for edge computing using location data" was invented by Junichi Shimada (Kamakura, Japan), Daisuke Maruyama (Yamato, Japan), Ichiro Takiguchi (Kawaski, Japan), Yoshinori Tahara (Yamato, Japan) and Jiayun Zhu (Edogawa-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are techniques for providing security for edge computing using location data. A command base location of an entity, an application identifier of the entity, and an expire date for the application identifier are determined. A message generated from the command ...