ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,383, issued on May 13, was assigned to NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Separate PFCP session model for network access by residential gateways" was invented by Kenneth Wan (Ottawa), Killian De Smedt (Antwerp, Belgium) and Sanjay Wadhwa (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network element includes at least one processor and at least one memory. The at least one memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the network element to: establish, via the aggregate gateway function, a separate packet forwarding control protocol session for each packet data unit (PDU) sess...