ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,334, issued on July 7, was assigned to DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG (Bonn, Germany).

"Deployment of edge application on a user equipment in a telecommunications system" was invented by Josep Colom Ikuno (Korneuburg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecommunications system includes: a user equipment (UE); an access network (AN); a core network (CN); and one or more data networks (DNS). The UE comprises: a UE layer (UEL); an application layer (AL); one or more edge application instances (EAIs); an EAI layer (EAIL); and an application. The RAN is configured to provide the UE access to the CN, the CN being configured to provide connectiv...