ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,284, issued on March 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Message management via a universal interface apparatus" was invented by Debajyoti Bagchi (Kolkata, India), Shantanu Sinha (Kolkata, India), Sandip Gajanan Andhale (Rockville, Md.), Subodh Agarwal (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Arijit Mukherjee (Balurghat, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described with respect to managing a distributed device message in a computing infrastructure. Such techniques are enabled through a universal interface apparatus including a plurality of serial interface adapter boards and a system-on-a-chip ...