ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,221, issued on July 28, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Methods and apparatus for supporting and using of a QUIC connection between a UE and TNGF in a communications system" was invented by Maulik Vaidya (Escondido, Calif.), Paul L. Russell Jr. (Lawrence, N.J.), Imtiyaz Shaikh (Irving, Texas), Yildirim Sahin (Englewood, Colo.) and Umamaheswar Achari Kakinada (Greenwood Village, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for using a QUIC connection established between a user equipment (UE) and a Trusted Non-3GPP Gateway Function (TNGF) to support trusted non-3GPP access which facilita...