ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,639, issued on May 20, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Handling of secondary RAT data usage for a UE" was invented by Jorge Garcia Llorente (Madrid), Santiago Gallego Rodrigo (Getafe, Spain) and Ignacio Rivas Molina (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for handling secondary RAT data usage for a UE. A method is performed by a mobility node. The method comprises obtaining, from a network node, an indication of data usage for the UE using the secondary RAT. The method comprises forwarding the indication towards a policy node. The method comprises obtaining a policy dec...