ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,370, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Differential charging for a user equipment with dual connectivity with new radio (NR) (DCNR) capabilities" was invented by Nithin Chitta (Bangalore, India) and Rajamathangi Subramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for applying differential charging over user plane for DCNR capable UEs. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a session request at a control plane gateway in association with a dual connectivity attachment request by a user equipment to connect to a n...