US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Methods and apparatuses for determination of non-3GPP interworking function (N3IWF)" (French, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,601, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Methods and apparatuses for determination of non-3GPP interworking function (N3IWF)" was invented by Laurent Thiebaut (Antony, France), Bruno Landais (Pleumeur-Bodou, France) and Georgios Gkellas (Petroupoli, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for determination of non-3GPP interworking function(s) (N3IWFs), which support slices targeted by a device or user equipment (UE), are provided. One method may include transmitting, by a UE or device, a request to at least one network node. The request...