ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,154, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Application-centric design for 5G and edge computing applications" was invented by Kunal Rao (Monroe, N.J.), Murugan Sankaradas (Dayton, N.J.) and Srimat Chakradhar (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for specifying and executing an application including multiple microservices on 5G slices within a multi-tiered 5G infrastructure is presented. The method includes managing compute requirements and network requirements of the application simultaneously by determining end-to-end application characteristics by employing an application slice specification incl...