ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,662, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Pairing of user data flows" was invented by Ralf Klotsche (Neuenburg, Germany) and Bernd Haberland (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method, including monitoring if an information on a first pairing condition is received, wherein the first pairing condition indicates that a first flow is suitable for pairing under the first pairing condition; checking, if the information on the first pairing condition is received, for at least one of one or more stored second pairing conditions, if the respective stored second ...