ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,342, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"PDU session management method" was invented by Seokjung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Laeyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Myungjune Youn (Seoul, South Korea), Jian Xu (Seoul, South Korea) and Daewook Byun (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One disclosure of the present specification provides a method by which a policy control function (PCF) performs communication. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a UE policy association establishment (UE association establishment) message from an access and mobility management function (AMF); and...