US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on Sept. 15 for "Systems and methods for personalized fog networks" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,304, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for personalized fog networks" was invented by Joel S. Hartshorn (Port Orchard, Wash.), Elena Marie Carrasco (Converse, Texas), Nathan Lee Post (Rockport, Texas), Mark Paxman Warnick (San Antonio), Ravi Durairaj (San Antonio), Nolan Serrao (Plano, Texas) and Sumita T. Jonak (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for managing smart devices via a local fog network. Device eligibility for joining the network is determined based upon characteristics of a discovery poll ping resp...