ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,350, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Decentralized data platform" was invented by Mehmet Kadri Umay (Redmond, Wash.), Anirudh Badam (Issaquah, Wash.), Philipp Andre Witte (Bellevue, Wash.) and Imran Siddique (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data from data sources may be processed at an edge device. The edge device may generate a local processing result, filter the data, and/or prioritize the data. Accordingly, data is transmitted from the edge device to the data platform, where it may be processed further. For example, a local processing result may be processed...