US Patent Issued to Northeastern University on April 29 for "Network and method for servicing a computation request" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,205, issued on April 29, was assigned to Northeastern University (Boston).

"Network and method for servicing a computation request" was invented by Edmund Meng Yeh (Newton, Mass.) and Khashayar Kamran (Allston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A framework for joint computation, caching, and request forwarding in data-centric computing-based networks comprises a virtual control plane, which operates on request counters for computations and data, and an actual plane, which handles computation requests, data requests, data objects and computation results in the physical network. A throughput optimal policy, implemented in the virtual...