ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,264, issued on March 25, was assigned to Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co. Ltd. (Gui'an, China).

"Edge service providing method and apparatus, and device by utilizing resources based on geographical coverage" was invented by Nannan Wang (Shenzhen, China), Zilin Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Sen Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to the field of cloud computing, and specifically, to a method for providing an edge service for a terminal by using a resource of an edge resource cluster in a cloud computing system. The cloud computing system includes a central resource cluster and at least one...