ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,289, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Service provision to IoT devices" was invented by Keith Nolan (Mullingar, Ireland), Mark Kelly (Leixlip, Ireland), Michael Nolan (Maynooth, Ireland), Davide Carboni (London), Cliodhna Ni Scanaill (Broadford, Ireland), Eugene Ryan (Glasnevin, Ireland), Richard Davies (Dublin) and John Brady (Celbridge, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Internet of Things (IoT) network includes an orchestrator to issue service management requests, a service coordinator to identify components to participate in the service, and a component to perform a network service ele...