ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,470, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"User equipment identification in edge communications architecture" was invented by Nishant Gupta (Bangalore, India), Sunghoon Kim (San Diego), Alan Soloway (Erie, Colo.), Dario Serafino Tonesi (San Diego), Tom Chin (San Diego) and Ajith Tom Payyappilly (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit identification information, wherein the identification information includes a UE identifier or connectivity information. The UE may communic...