ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,102, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NetScout Systems Inc. (Westford, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for handling notification messages in a 5G network" was invented by Sandeep Prasad (San Jose, Calif.), Abhishek Saraswati (San Jose, Calif.), Massimiliano Frigieri (Modena, Italy), Vijayalakshmi Seshadri (San Jose, Calif.), Pritish Aherrao (Pune, India), Loreto Di Resta (Modena, Italy), Tauras Liubinskas (Frankford, Ky.) and Linda Nasi (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. A control plane signaling data packet transmitted from a first node to a second node may be collected via a probe. An identifier of ...