ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,881, issued on May 5, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Gateway device, system and method for providing a forwarding policy" was invented by Toni Dimitrovski (Boskoop, Netherlands), Jose Luis Almodovar Chico (Delft, Netherlands), Nicolaas Wijnand Keesmaat (Voorburg, Netherlands), Antonius Hendrikus Johannes Norp (The Hague, Netherlands), Pascal Mathieu Agnes Marie Heijnen (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Jarmo Theodore Wilkens (Malaga, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One aspect of this disclosure p...