ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,502, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Creating sets of heterogeneous internet-of-things (IoT) devices from which to upload data as a pre-step to edge computing" was invented by Hemant Kumar Sivaswamy (Pune, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Afroz Khan I (Davanagere, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for transmitting data from a set of edge devices is provided. The embodiment may include identifying one or more Internet-of-Things...