ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,425, issued on July 29, was assigned to Futurewei Technologies Inc. (Addison, Texas).
"Interactions between a broadband network gateway and a fifth generation core" was invented by Shuping Peng (Beijing), Behcet Sarikaya (Wylie, Texas), Huan Li (Shenzhen, China) and Marco Spini (Boulogne-Billancourt, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadband network gateway (BNG) in a wireline network. The BNG includes an interworking function in a control plane (IF-CP), the IF-CP configured to use a control plane interface (N1'/N2') between the BNG in the wireline network and a fifth generation (5G) core in a 5G network to couple a control p...