ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,667, issued on July 1, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for granting or not granting a chargeable party at a session management with required quality of service utilizing a MAC address" was invented by Wenliang Xu (Shanghai) and Susana Fernandez Alonso (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for data transmission. A method implemented at a first network function may comprise obtaining information related to network slice selection; and sending a reroute message to an access network node, wherein the reroute message including a container comprising at least...