US Patent Issued to Ofinno on April 7 for "Support for L2TP tunneling" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,547, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Support for L2TP tunneling" was invented by Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.) and Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network repository function (NRF) receives, from a session management function (SMF), a discovery request for at least one user plane function (UPF) that supports a layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel. The NRF determines, in response to the discovery request, a first UPF that supports the L2TP tunnel. The NRF ...