ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,288, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"External exposure of control plane to user plane switch parameter" was invented by Mahmoud Watfa (Staines, Great Britain), Chadi Khirallah (Staines, Great Britain) and David Gutierrez Estevez (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. One or more network entities, such as a network function, a user equipment of a 3GPP communication network which use one or more expected CP to UP switch parameters which are one or more new ...