ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,527, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to IPLA HOLDINGS INC. (New York).

"Methods for enabling data analytics service at service layer" was invented by Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Sneha Aman Singh (Issaquah, Wash.), Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Catalina Mihaela Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.), Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.) and Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A common Data Analytics Service (DAS) at service layer is designed to use underlying existing/future data analytics technologies or tools and provide them to service layer entities that need those data analytics operations with...