ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,280, issued on March 18, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Mechanism for coordinating seamless service continuity to edge application server at relocation" was invented by Attila Mihaly (Dunakeszi, Hungary) and Maria Luisa Mas Rosique (Tres Cantos, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein for coordinating seamless service continuity to Edge Application Server (EAS) at relocation in a cellular communications system. In some embodiments, an Application Function (AF) sends to a Policy Control Function (PCF) a steering request comprising a keepExistingPSA indicati...