ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,345, issued on June 10, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Call setup simplification for internet clients to establish media sessions with a serving IMS network" was invented by Mark Daniel Allen (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Call setup and management for internet clients is simplified by splitting negotiation of media characteristics for the call into separate negotiations with an originating device and a destination device. Based on an initiation of a call from an originating device (e.g., an originating internet client) to a destination device (e.g., a destination internet client), a f...