ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,986, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for decomposing mobile applications into micro-services (MSs) at runtime for distributed execution" was invented by Chathura Sarathchandra (London) and Dirk Trossen (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method implemented by an end user device to decompose an application at runtime includes collecting profile information regarding local executions of the application on the end user device and determining, by the end user device using the colle...