ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,113, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Edge computing data and service discovery using an interior gateway protocol (IGP)" was invented by Yingzhen Qu (San Jose, Calif.), Michael McBride (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) and James N. Guichard (Hollis, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge routing device at an edge of a network including a memory storing instructions one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to determine that an edge routing capability of the edge routing device has been updated, encode an updated edge routing capability in...