ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,933, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Edge application server relocation" was invented by Michel Roy (Candiac, Canada), Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada), Robert Gazda (Spring City, Pa.), Debashish Purkayastha (Collegeville, Pa.) and Saad Ahmad (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for reducing application instantiation delay and downtime are described herein. A method may comprise relocating an application function from a source Edge Data Network (EDN) component to a target EDN component. The method may comprise receiving an indication, ...