ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,897, issued on July 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and apparatus for supporting application mobility in multi-access edge computing platform architectures" was invented by Jiafeng Zhu (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jie Shen (San Jose, Calif.), Liya Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Feng Ye (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a multi-access edge computing (MEC) distributed controller includes receiving a MEC computing task request for execution of a service on MEC nodes controlled by the MEC distributed controller; obtaining mobile device geo-location information ...