ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,588, issued on April 7, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Edge computing method and system, edge device and control server providing more computing resources for edge computing applications" was invented by Yu Xuan Xing (Langfang, China) and Tong Xin Bai (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the teachings herein include an edge computing method. The method may include: installing a daemon on a first edge device connected to a control server, wherein the daemon sends information to the server when an accelerator is connected to the edge device indicating the first edge device is connected to an accelerator...