ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,303, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Distributed and partitioned state machine based rule engine for mesh devices and edge devices" was invented by Maja Massarini (Milan) and Leigh Griffin (Waterford, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of a distributed and partitioned state machine for mesh devices. The method includes obtaining a first capability dataset indicating capabilities of a first mesh node of a first mesh network system to provide a first service for a first object. The method includes obtaining a second capability dataset indicating capabilities of a second mesh n...