ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,944, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Edge cloud platform for mission critical applications" was invented by Zhongwen Zhu (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Qinan Qi (Saint-Laurent, Canada), Claes Goran Robert Edstrom (Beaconsfield, Canada), Tan Phat Nguyen (Montreal) and Alec Kurkdjian (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implements a network slicing controller to manage network slicing instances in an edge cloud platform. The method includes receiving at least one policy change from an artificial intelligence powered smart traffic controller (APSTC) or an artificial int...