ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,296, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Session management for edge computing" was invented by Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.) and Hyukjin Chae (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session management function (SMF) receives, from a wireless device, a packet data unit (PDU) session establishment request message requesting establishment of a PDU session associated with an application and offloaded processing of data from the wireless device to an application server associated with the application. The SMF sends,...