ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,972, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Edge computing local breakout" was invented by Arvind Merwaday (Beaverton, Ore.), Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan (Portland, Ore.), Leonardo Gomes Baltar (Munich) and Suman A. Sehra (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes local breakout for edge computing systems, wherein the local breakout selectively routes the traffic from/to a user equipment between an edge compute node or some other service such as a core network, cloud computing service, or the like. Packets related to microservices that are offered by the edge compu...