ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,109, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Industrial Internet-of-Things asset management system" was invented by Aaron D'souza (Atlanta) and Vidya Shivamurthy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring a plurality of assets associated with a plurality of spaces may be configured to generate a knowledge graph comprising a plurality of nodes, each node of the plurality of nodes being associated with (i) a respective asset of the plurality of assets or (ii) a respective space of the plurality of spaces; determine a respective initial ranking value for each node...