ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,879, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus, and systems for discovery of edge network management servers" was invented by Scott Hergenhan (Collegeville, Pa.), Robert Gazda (Spring City, Pa.), Debashish Purkayastha (Collegeville, Pa.), Michel Roy (Candiac, Canada) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) performing discovery of edge computing servers are provided. A WTRU may send a request message, such as a protocol data uni...