ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,761, issued on May 12, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and devices for policy control function network element selection" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a policy control function (PCF) network element is performed by a first PCF network element. The method includes: in response to a received policy association establishment request being related to a packet data unit (PDU) session of a user equipment (UE) within a UE group, determining whether to select a same PCF network element serving each UE in the UE group for the PDU session of t...