ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,760, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Application function relocation procedure" was invented by Klaus Hoffmann (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use by a network element or function configured to provide an application function providing a service in a communication network, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatu...