ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,495, issued on June 3, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for supporting edge computing service in wireless communication system" was invented by Jicheol Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sunghoon Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate after a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, in an operating method of a first network node in a wireles...