ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,360, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Addressability in a service-based wireless system" was invented by Miguel Griot (La Jolla, Calif.), Aziz Gholmieh (Del Mar, Calif.) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An end-to-end routing layer may address packets between a user equipment (UE) and core network services offered by a service-based network on a per-core network service basis. A UE may communicate directly with a core network service (e.g., based on a network address associated with the core netwo...