ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,951, issued on May 12, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Fifth generation core enhancements to support ad hoc and dynamic group based services for edge deployments" was invented by Renil Surendran (Kerala-State, India), Jisha George (Karnataka-State, India), Malathi Ponniah (Bangalore, India), Shubhranshu Singh (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany) and Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for creating implicit ad hoc groups of UE based upon specific criteria. One method may include forming, by a session management function, at le...