ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,867, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Edge computing over disaggregated radio access network functions" was invented by Akhilesh Thyagaturu (Tempe, Ariz.), Mohit Garg (Hisar, India), Vinodh Gopal (Westborough, Mass.) and Ned M. Smith (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes edge computing over disaggregated radio access network (RAN) infrastructure through dynamic edge data extraction. Edge data is extracted at intermediate stages of RAN processing, provided to edge compute functions, and inserted back into the RAN processing pipeline. These mechanisms allo...