ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,288, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for deployment multi-access edge computing application" was invented by Lijuan Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Qiang Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, systems and devices for receiving, by a platform manager node, virtualization network function, VNF, instance information from a wireless communication node; selecting, by the platform manager node, a multi-access edge computing platform, MEP from candidate MEPs according to the VNF instance information; and transmitting, by the platform manager node, a first configuration request compri...