ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,505, issued on April 21, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Central and edge processing node identification" was invented by Brian Michael Duke (Milton, Ga.), Surya Raghavendra Vadlamani (Newtown, Pa.), Sanju Ganeshprasad Dabi (Farmers Branch, Texas), Jagaran Das (Durgapur, India), Bogdan Petru Bistriceanu (Chicago) and Peter Royer Smith Jr. (Sharon, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for enriching or exchanging identifying information using central and edge processing nodes. In some implementations, a method inc...