ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,656, issued on April 7, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for edge computing" was invented by Jinguo Zhu (Shenzhen, China), Lijuan Chen (Shenzhen, China), Qiang Huang (Shenzhen, China) and Qiang Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, device and computer program product for wireless communication are provided. A method includes: transmitting, by an application function to a first application server, a tunnel ready notification to allow the first application server to transfer an application layer traffic to a second application server via a tunnel between a first local user plane function for ...