ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,936, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to IPCom GmbH & Co. KG (Pullach, Germany).
"Non-3GPP handover preparation" was invented by Martin Hans (Bad Salzdetfurth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for a user equipment, UE, device to hand over a connection to a first data network from a first access network of a first mobile communications network to a second access network of a second mobile communications network, in which a communication tunnel is established in the first communications network to a non-3GPP interworking function and after the handover to the second mobile communications net...