ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,963, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Updating an application data set with N6-LAN steering information" was invented by Dimitrios Karampatsis (Ruislip, Great Britain), Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece), Genadi Velev (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ishan Vaishnavi (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for configuring N6-LAN chain policies. One apparatus includes a processor and a network interface that receives a first request from an application function ("AF"), the first request comprising an external identifier for at least one user equipmen...