US Patent Issued to Rockell Collins on Feb. 10 for "Rules-based task allocation for edge networks" (Iowa, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,451, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Rockell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Rules-based task allocation for edge networks" was invented by Peter R. Bellows (Marion, Iowa), Alexei Tchernoraenko (Iowa City, Iowa), Brian R Wolford (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Joshua A. Slagle (Marion, Iowa) and Jesse A. Lane (Mount Pleasant, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stack is described. The stack includes a rule engine. The rule engine is accessed via application programming interface (API) from any plug-in mission service. The rule engine includes rules and facts. The rules and facts are loaded separately from the API and from a cloudlet m...