ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,573, issued on July 15, was assigned to CONVIDA WIRELESS LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Traffic steering enhancements for cellular networks" was invented by Quang Ly (Wilmington, Del.), Michael Starsinic (Wilmington, Del.), Hongkun Li (Wilmington, Del.), Jiwan Ninglekhu (Wilmington, Del.) and Catalina Mladin (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices may assist in enhancements to PMF protocol and new ATSSS steering modes to enable support for analytics driven or multi-USIM steering. The following functionalities are disclosed: 1) Enable UEs to use the PMF protocol to provide UE specific data to the NWDAF...