ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,345, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CONVIDA WIRELESS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Edge aware distributed network" was invented by Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Dale Seed (Allentown, Pa.), Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Lu Liu (Conshohocken, Pa.), Michael Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.) and Hongkun Li (Malvern, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods that improve the use of network functions on edge data networks are disclosed. A mechanism that supports edge-assisted UE context and trigger collection is described herein, where a UE can actively send its context information and/or any trigger (e.g. a request for a network functio...