ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,344, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to IPLA HOLDINGS INC. (New York).

"Service layer methods for offloading IoT application message generation and response handling" was invented by Dale N. Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Quang Ly (North Wales, Pa.), Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Catalina Mihaela Mladin (Hatboro, Pa.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.) and William Robert Flynn IV (Schwenksville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service layer may be configured to offload requests and responses on behalf of IoT applications in order to reduce congestion and/or overhead on underlying networks, applications an...