ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,216, issued on March 25, was assigned to Peking University (Beijing) and East China Normal University (Shanghai).

"Conflict detection method and system for internet of things (IoT) device scheduling" was invented by Zhi Jin (Beijing), Xiaohong Chen (Shanghai) and Han Bian (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a conflict detection method for Internet of Things (IoT) device scheduling, relating to the technical field of the IoT, and specific steps include: acquiring data of a device model; converting a device scheduling instruction into a conditional instruction according to the data of the device m...