ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,983, issued on April 21, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Dynamic discovery and deployment of sensors and leaf devices as services in a distributed environment" was invented by Aakarshan Dhakal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Bernard Van Haecke (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Chen Lin (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method, comprising discovering a sensor device, over a connection, by a discovery node of a distributed system; deploying a custom broker, by the discovery node, to connect to the sensor device, wherein the deploying of the custom broker is ...