ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,154, issued on April 7, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Methods, systems, and devices to enable an association between a base station and an access and mobility management function (AMF) in the mobile network core located in the public cloud network through a network address translation (NAT) gateway" was invented by Tarun Chaki (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first message to a base station, via a network address translation (NAT) gateway. The NAT gateway generates a first entry in a NAT table stored in the NAT ga...