ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,181, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).
"5G enhanced HetNet gateway" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Mishra (Westford, Mass.), Eugina Jordan (Leominster, Mass.) and Zahid Ghadialy (Ilford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A 5G enhanced HetNet Gateway (HNG) is presented. In one embodiment the 5G HNG includes at least one non-5G virtual network function (VNF); a 5G Core (5GC) option selection VNF; a 5GC default VNF; a 5G local breakout VNF; at least one interface for any G base station; and at least one interface for any core network. Core functionality is abstracted for the EPC and for t...