ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,405, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Code execution on a distributed unit" was invented by Nikolay Krasilnikov (Seattle), Theodore Joseph Maka'iwi DeRego (Shoreline, Wash.) and Benjamin Wojtowicz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for implementing a distributed unit in a radio access network that executes code on behalf of mobile devices. A distributed unit may be implemented on an edge server that is in close physical proximity to a radio unit, with few or no intervening devices. The edge server may thus provide services to mobile devices, such as exe...