ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,723, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Information centric network unstructured data carrier" was invented by Yi Zhang (Portland, Ore.), Gabriel Arrobo Vidal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Srikathyayani Srikanteswara (Portland, Ore.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain) and Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and techniques for information centric network unstructured data carrier are described herein. A user plane function (UPF) node receives an initiation for a packet data unit (PDU) session of user equipment (UE). Here, the initiation includes an indication for an IC...