ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,956, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Application specific protocol data unit sessions" was invented by Colin Kahn (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for initiating or providing application specific protocol data unit (PDU) sessions are provided. One method may include receiving, from an application server or application function having a co-located or integrated micro-user plane function (UPF), a request to use the micro-user plane function (UPF) for an application. The metho...