US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods to deploy user plane function (UPF) and edge computing virtualized network functions (VNFS) in network functions virtualization (NFV) environment networks" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,288, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to deploy user plane function (UPF) and edge computing virtualized network functions (VNFS) in network functions virtualization (NFV) environment networks" was invented by Joey Chou (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Yizhi Yao (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for deploying User Plane Function (UPF) and edge computing virtualized network functions (VNF). For example, some embodiments are directed to a netwo...