ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,070, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Selecting an application instance" was invented by Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain) and Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for selecting a server application instance. One apparatus includes a network interface that communicates with a plurality of network functions in a mobile communication network and a processor that receives a request from a first network function to provide performance analytics for a first application. Here, the request includes a prese...