US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Augmenting broker capabilities on massive IoT scenarios" (American, Canadian, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,276, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmenting broker capabilities on massive IoT scenarios" was invented by Paul Llamas Virgen (Guadalajara, Mexico), Jesus Gabriel Trillo Vargas (Toronto), Su Liu (Austin, Texas) and Jeffrey Alan Schmidt (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broker capability augmenting method, system, and computer program product for increasing a capability of a Message Queuing Telemetry Transfer (MQTT) broker in an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network including obtaining data from an IoT neighborhood to detect an IoT network topology over time, c...