US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 28 for "Geofencing IOT edge application virtualization" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,248, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Geofencing IOT edge application virtualization" was invented by Partho Ghosh (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for lightweight application virtualization based on policies defined by overlaying geofence for an edge computing architecture, a processor collects real-time data of one or more geofences of a specified geospatial area. A processor determines a hierarchy of the one or more geofences based on the collected real-time data. A processor determines applicable set of geofence policies based, at least in part,...