US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Data compliance in an edge computing environment" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,094, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data compliance in an edge computing environment" was invented by Christopher J. Vollmar (Mississauga, Canada), Joseph W. Dain (Tucson, Ariz.), Frank N. Lee (Sunset Hills, Mo.) and Sandeep Ramesh Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes using a determined classification of a predetermined file to determine a data compliance ruleset that applies to data of the predetermined file. In response to a determination that the data of the predetermined file is scheduled to b...