ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,079, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Low-power distributed computing" was invented by Panagiotis Botsinis (Munich), Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa (Munich), Christian Hofmann (Munich), Said Medjkouh (San Diego), Sameh M. Eldessoki (Munich) and Tarik Tabet (Carlsbad, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor has circuitry that executes instructions to cause a user equipment (UE) to perform operations. The operations include determining to offload a task to a network node. The operations include transmitting an offload request to the network node, wherein the offload request compris...