ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,716, issued on July 1, was assigned to MIND IN A BOX INC. (Montreal).

"Hybrid computing apparatus and hybrid computing architectures applicable to on premises, cloud, and edge computing applications" was invented by Jeremie Farret (Verdun, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid computing apparatus comprises a virtualization module receiving a task from a client application, defining a service call for the task, receiving a service result, and transmitting the service result to the client application. A layer 2 software-defined networking (SDN) component receives the service call from the virtualization module via a layer 3 SDN...