ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,012, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PELTBEAM INC. (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

"Edge device and method for handling service for multiple service providers" was invented by Venkat Kalkunte (Saratoga, Calif.) and Mehdi Hatamian (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An edge device that includes a processor which obtains sensing information of a surrounding area from one or more external sensing devices in a communication range of the edge device. The processor communicates the sensing information to a central cloud server and obtains wireless connectivity enhanced information from the central cloud server based on the com...