ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,878, issued on July 14, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for rogue user plane detection" was invented by Sathyadeep Raghavan (Tokyo) and Prateek Khanna (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method includes monitoring, by a virtualized central unit (VCU), data traffic on a first user plane, detecting, by the VCU, a data traffic inconsistency on the first user plane, and providing, by the VCU, a notification of the data traffic inconsistency to an external device based on the detecting the data traffic inconsistency. The VCU resumes monitoring data traffic on the first user plane...