ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,042, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Network access method, apparatus, and system" was invented by Xin Xia (Nanjing, China), Shuo Yuan (Beijing), Rongrong Hua (Nanjing, China) and Shuming Che (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first device obtains first detection data of network performance between a steering function SF device and a first user plane UP device, where the first UP device is a UP device in a communication system in which a control plane CP is separated from a UP. Then, the first device configures the SF device and the first UP device based on the first detection...