US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on March 18 for "Local breakout of user plan function at enterprise 5G radio access network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,772, issued on March 18, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local breakout of user plan function at enterprise 5G radio access network" was invented by Shailender Potharaju (Fremont, Calif.) and Arun G. Khanna (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a method for providing an enterprise gNB for connection to a 5G packet core network. The method includes provisioning the enterprise gNB. The enterprise gNB hosts a local user plane function (L-UPF). The method also includes configuring the 5G packet core network comprising a session management function (SMF) to select the local u...