ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,788, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Network operations to receive user consent for edge computing" was invented by Shu Guo (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Huarui Liang (Beijing), Mona Agnel (Guildford, Great Britain), Ralf Rossbach (Munich), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network receives an indication of user consent from a user equipment (UE) to access UE information for the purposes of edge computing. The network receives an indication of user consent from a ...