US Patent Issued to Apple on July 15 for "Split protocol data unit (PDU) session indication for multi-rat dual connectivity (MR-DC) with 5GC" (British, American, Chinese, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,780, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Split protocol data unit (PDU) session indication for multi-rat dual connectivity (MR-DC) with 5GC" was invented by Jaemin Han (Portland, Ore.), Feng Yang (Beijing), Alexander Sirotkin (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Sudeep Palat (Cheltanham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master node (MN) that determines a manner of a protocol data unit (PDU) session to be served, wherein the manner of the PDU session includes a split PDU session between the MN and a secondary node (SN) or a whole PDU session served by the MN, generates a request message to be transm...