ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,037, issued on June 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Seamless session handling with redundant deployment of policy control nodes" was invented by Shon Anil Lonkar (Maple Valley, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices that relate to reducing or minimizing session establishment delay with redundant deployment of policy control nodes are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a first communication node configured to provide policy control in a communication network, a request for establishing a communication session with a mobile d...