ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,536, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Ethernet type packet data unit session communications" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A network function device, such as a policy control function device, may send a policy and charging control rule that is based on one or more Ethernet medium access control (MAC) addresses. For example, the policy control function device may sen...