ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,877, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Support of user plane transactions over a mobile network" was invented by Alistair Urie (Nozay, France), Omar Elloumi (Nozay, France), Laurent Thiebaut (Nozay, France) and Bruno Landais (Lannion, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, there is provided an architecture for the support of user plane transactions over a mobile network between an User Equipment UE and an IP network, the mobile network comprising at least one node, referred to as control plane node, supporting control plane transactions between the UE and the mobile network o...