ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,984, issued on March 17, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Enabling multi-edge applications" was invented by Pieter Nooren (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mapping system and method may be provided for facilitating setup of an application data flow between an edge application server which may be instantiated on one or more edge nodes of a mobile network and a remote server outside of the mobile network. The system and method may obtain a client identifier identifying a client ...