ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,891, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Synchronization for multiple data flows" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A session management function (SMF) receives, from a wireless device, a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request message including a parameter indicating a request for synchronization of multiple data flows. The session management function sends, to a user plane function (UPF) and based o...