ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,260, issued on March 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Supporting quality of service for media communications" was invented by Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas), Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany) and Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device (e.g., user equipment or "UE") may be configured to engage in a media communication session, such as a WebRTC session, with another client device. The client devices may separate a quality of service (QoS) specification from a QoS flow definition, to allow for separate interactive connectivity establishment (ICE) negotiation. The QoS specific...