ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,224, issued on April 29, was assigned to Juniper Networks Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Multiple state control interfaces between a control plane and a user plane in a disaggregated broadband network gateway architecture" was invented by Subrat Pani (Acton, Mass.) and John E. Ziegler (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disaggregated broadband network gateway (DBNG) control plane system may receive an association setup request message from a DBNG user plane device, wherein the association setup request message is received via a state control interface between the DBNG control plane system and the DBNG user plane device. T...