ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,319, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"N-to-N protocol data unit acknowledgment mechanism for improving interception data reliability" was invented by Shantanu Desai (Bangalore, India) and Kantha Rao Dammalapati (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a packet data units (PDU) reliability system that improves lawful interception (LI) network functions in a cloud computing system for a telecommunications network. The PDU reliability system utilizes new components and elements within the network functions of the telecommunications network ...