ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,766, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"IoT node coordination" was invented by Guang Han Sui (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Yu Zhu (Beijing), Jun Su (Beijing) and Jun Feng Duan (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method performs a task for a vehicle. A number of processor units detects a presence of the vehicle on a road. The number of processor units divides the task to be performed for the vehicle into subtasks. The number of processor units assigns the subtasks to Internet of Things nodes on possible paths that the vehic...