US Patent Issued to HiveMQ on Sept. 29 for "Data broker and method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,429, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HiveMQ GmbH (Landshut, Germany).

"Data broker and method" was invented by Stefan Frehse (Landshut, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed at a data broker comprises receiving from a subscriber client a request for a subscription for sensor data transmitted by a sensor client, the request in accordance with a publish/subscribe messaging protocol, receiving sensor data from the sensor client, the sensor data published by the sensor client in accordance with the messaging protocol, and determining, in dependence on the sensor data and a current state of a state machine associa...