ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,742, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Communication and synchronization with edge systems" was invented by Naorem Khogendro Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Reddy Goli (San Jose, Calif.), Satyam B. Vaghani (San Jose, Calif.) and Shyan-Ming Perng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scalable Internet of Things (IoT) system may include multiple instances of an IoT manager, each instance respectively configured to connect to a respective edge system of multiple edge systems. The IoT system may further include a containerized system configured to allow any instance of the IoT manager to ...