ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,207, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Enhanced handling of 5GSM procedure collision" was invented by Chien-Chun Huang-Fu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chi-Hsien Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for handling a collision of a UE-requested PDU session establishment procedure and a network-requested PDU session release procedure is proposed. When a PDU SESSION ESTABLISHMENT REQUEST message indicates that the UE-requested PDU session establishment request procedure is to handover an existing PDU session between 5G 3GPP access and 5G non-3GPP access, the UE proceeds with the networ...