ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,916, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Dynamic distributed local breakout determination" was invented by Vinay Yadhav (Upplands Vasby, Sweden), Mina Sedaghat (Solna, Sweden) and Daniel Turull (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method by a user plane breakout function in a mobile core network for providing dynamic distributed local breakout. The method includes receiving, from one or more neighboring user plane breakout functions, service instance information of one or more instances of a service, processing capacity information of one or more edge clouds, and link qua...