ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,891, issued on June 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for providing connectivity to terminal in order to use edge computing service" was invented by Sunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jicheol Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE), and a system therefor. The present disclosure ma...