ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,960, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Computing device, network node, and methods thereof" was invented by Ari Keranen (Helsinki) and Jari Arkko (Kauniainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is disclosed. The computing device comprises processing circuitry that is configured to expose (110) a resource that is hosted at the computing device, wherein the resource comprises a digital interface for a physical entity to which the resource corresponds, and expose (120) information about a relation between a state of the resource and a state of the physical enti...