US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 15 for "Machine to machine capability sharing" (California, Georgia, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,251, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine to machine capability sharing" was invented by Joseph Andrew Pearson (Kennesaw, Ga.), Ashok Kumar Iyengar (Encinitas, Calif.), Troy Fine (Sutter Creek, Calif.), Ryan Anderson (Kensington, Calif.), Nathan Andrew Phelps (Durham, N.C.) and Kavitha Bade (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for utilizing machine to machine communications to facilitate capability sharing includes determining a first machine out of a group of machines has encountered an issue, that cannot be resolved, where the group of...