ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,728, issued on May 12, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Graphically integrating sensor data through edge devices" was invented by Nikolaos Ioannis Salmatanis (Cyrpess, Texas), Tyrone Jenkins (Sugar Land, Texas), Larry A. Bowden Jr. (Houston) and Lisa Ann Brenskelle (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different edge devices are connected to different sensors. Individual edge devices locally generate and manage sensor nodes that represent sensors connected to the individual edge devices. Sensor observations from the sensors are received by the edge devices, and the edge devices populate the locally managed s...