ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,844, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method of routing traffic for a cluster of devices serviced by a base station" was invented by Snezana Mitrovic (Bertem, Belgium), Alwin Xavier Pulikkal Xavier (Tienen, Belgium), Vinay Saini (Bangalore, India) and Timothy P. Stammers (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive, from an application function, a first machine-to-machine identifier at a first mobile device being served by a base station. A device may add the first machine-to-machine identifier to a user plane protocol stack of the first mobile device. A devi...