ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,041, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Service-level objective (SLO) aware execution of concurrence inference requests on a fog-cloud network" was invented by Chetan Dnyandeo Phalak (Mumbai, India), Dheeraj Chahal (Pune, India) and Rekha Singhal (Thane West, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cloud and Fog computing are complementary technologies used for complex Internet of Things (IoT) based deployment of applications. With an increase in the number of internet-connected devices, the volume of data generated and processed at higher speeds has increased substantially. Serving a larg...