ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,168, issued on July 1, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Orchestrating migration of edge computing resources" was invented by Jan-Willem Martin Kleinrouweler (Pijnacker, Netherlands), Lucia D'Acunto (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Toni DImitrovski (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a system configured as an orchestration function for a mobile network, wherein the mobile network comprises edge nodes which are configurable to provide edge computing resources ...