ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,577, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Application identification in access traffic steering, switching, and splitting (ATSSS) rules" was invented by Susana Fernandez Alonso (Madrid), Fuencisla Garcia Azorero (Madrid), Maria Belen Pancorbo Marcos (Madrid), Stefan Rommer (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden) and Veronica Sanchez Vega (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a policy control function (PCF) of a communication network. Such methods include, during establishment of a packet data unit, PDU, session for a user equipment, UE, determining one or more UE app...