US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 22 for "Method and apparatus for indicating that connection enables routing of data between PDN gateway and local gateway" (Pennsylvania, Florida, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,726, issued on April 22, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for indicating that connection enables routing of data between PDN gateway and local gateway" was invented by Ahmed Mohamed (Miramer, Fla.), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment device (UE) initiates the creation of a dedicated bearer between a local gateway (L-GW) and a packet data network gateway (P-GW). A GTP tunnel is established to connect the L-GW, a serving gateway (S-GW), and the P-GW. The L-GW and P-GW apply Network Address Tra...