ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,860, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Mobility edge network systems and methods" was invented by Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.), Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.), Mark Richard Bales (Lee's Summit, Mo.) and Robert Keith Butler (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mobility edge network systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, a mobility edge interface extends instantiation of a UPF and/or other network functions of the operator core network further from the traditional centralized network core, to a new e...