ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,143, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"QOS flow framework" was invented by Sitaramanjaneyulu Kanamarlapudi (San Diego), Prashanth Haridas Hande (San Diego) and Dario Serafino Tonesi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and computer program products for processing QoS flows are provided. An example method may include establishing a PDU session with a second device, the PDU session including a set of QoS flows, the set of QoS flows being associated with a set of DRBs. The example method may further include communicating with the second device based on the set of QoS flows."

The p...