US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 17 for "Synchronization of sensor network with organization ontology hierarchy" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,181, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Synchronization of sensor network with organization ontology hierarchy" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Gray Franklin Cannon (Atlanta) and Eduardo Morales (Key Biscayne, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for synchronizing a sensor network with an organization ontology hierarchy. The ontology data structure comprises a plurality of nodes specifying concepts associated with operations of the organization, and edges connection nodes that represent relationships b...