ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,374, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reconfiguring edge applications at runtime" was invented by Benjamin William Ryder (Lausanne, Switzerland), Andre Jean Marie Surcouf (Saint-leu-la-Foret, France), Rafael Machado da Silva (Braga, Portugal) and Dominik Kolonits (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method by a runtime configuration service at an edge site comprises receiving a registration request from a particular application comprising a particular identifier associated with the particular application, establishing a connection to a control plane applicat...