ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,624, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart log shipping in a heterogenous cloud computing environment" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Satyam Jakkula (Bengaluru, India), Sudhanshu Sekher Sar (Bangalore, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for smart log shipping in a heterogeneous computing environment. A first edge device and a second edge device in a heterogeneous cloud computing environment are identified. The first edge device is caused to t...