ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,179, issued on May 27, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Dynamic access network selection based on application orchestration information in an edge cloud system" was invented by Xuejun Cai (Taby, Sweden) and Bjorn Skubic (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dynamic access network selection by a user equipment based on application orchestration information in an edge cloud system. The method includes determining, by a network discovery function, application orchestration information describing placement of instances of one or more applications in the edge cloud system; gene...