ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,519, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Metadata based data distribution" was invented by Joseph W. Dain (Tucson, Ariz.), Frank N. Lee (Sunset Hills, Mo.) and Yu-Cheng Hsu (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving, at an edge computing environment, internet of things (IoT) data generated by IoT devices in communication with the edge computing environment. One or more inference models are used at the edge computing environment to: classify the IoT data, and generate labeled metadata for the classifie...