ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,929, issued on April 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Metrics collection and reporting in 5G media streaming" was invented by Charles Nung Lo (San Diego), Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany), Juan Zhang (Beijing) and Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for supporting metrics collection and reporting for Fifth Generation (5G) Media Streaming in a 5G system (5GS) network. Various embodiments include systems and methods enabling a Media Session Handler running on a processor of a wireless device connected to a radio access network (RAN) of a 5GS network to receive a me...