US Patent Issued to Apple on July 14 for "Uplink in-order delivery for QOS flow offloaded in 5GC multi-RAT dual connectivity" (British, American, Chinese, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,405, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Uplink in-order delivery for QOS flow offloaded in 5GC multi-RAT dual connectivity" was invented by Jaemin Han (Portland, Ore.), Yujian Zhang (Beijing), Alexander Sirotkin (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Sudeep K. Palat (Gloucestershire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods of providing uplink in-order packet delivery of a QoS flow offloaded in a 5G network are described. An uplink forwarding tunnel is established between a source and target node after a determination is made to offload a QoS flow of a UE to the target node. The source node re...