ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,775, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Request manager for managing service requests in a trust environment" was invented by Paul Llamas Virgen (Guadalajara, Mexico), Su Liu (Austin, Texas), Utz Bacher (Dettenhausen, Germany) and Dario Andres Silva Moran (La Plata, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request manager for managing service requests in a trust environment, where the trust environment includes a number of devices configured to communicate within the environment including Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The request manager includes: a processor; a memory st...