ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,535, issued on July 29, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for edge application server discovery or instantiation by an application provider to run media streaming and services on 5G networks" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method includes generating, by a 5th generation media streaming (5GMS) application provider, an edge configuration resource including at least one edge enabler client (EEC) capability specification, transmitting, by the 5GMS application provider, a request for provisioning an edge application server (EAS) to ope...