ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,279, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Edge computing autonomous vehicle infrastructure" was invented by Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Joly (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Daniel De Souza Casali (Elmhurst, N.Y.), Abhishek Jain (Baraut, India) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer resource disparity is detected. The computer resource disparity is related to performing a computing task. The computer resource disparity is located proximate to a first location. A set of one or more autonomous vehicles capable of being adjacent to the first location is identifie...