ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,187, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Discontinuous reception enhancements" was invented by Mikhail Wilhelm (Munich), Ralph Hasholzner (Munich) and Christian Drewes (Germering, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer programs for offloading computing tasks to one or more computers, e.g., that implement an edge server. In one aspect, the method can include actions of transmitting, for a user equipment and to the one or more computers, uplink information via an air interface; determining whether the uplink information has been fully transmitted across the air i...