ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,258, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing data connection requests from edge devices" was invented by Kushal S. Patel (Pune, India), Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia) and Sarvesh S. Patel (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing data connection requests is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a connection request from an edge device and responding to the edge device such that the edge device recognizes that a connection is established and that data cannot be sent. The method further includes re...