ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,248, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Constructing processing pipeline at edge computing device" was invented by Shadi Abdollahian Noghabi (Kirkland, Wash.), Ranveer Chandra (Kirkland, Wash.) and Krishna Kant Chintalapudi (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system including an edge computing device. The edge computing device may include an edge device processor configured to receive edge device contextual data including computing resource availability data. Based at least in part on the edge device contextual data, the edge device processor may select a pr...