ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,347, issued on May 27, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimized serving gateway node selection for interworking networks" was invented by Aeneas Sean Dodd-Noble (Andover, Mass.), Om Prakash Suthar (Bolingbrook, Ill.), Raghavendra Suryanarayanarao Vidyashankar (Bangalore South, India) and Vivek Agarwal (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a first connectivity request for a first network connection between a user equipment and a first network is obtained. A control plane serving gateway node for the first network connection is selected. The control plane serving gateway node is c...