ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,938, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for PDU session transfer across different access types" was invented by Mahmoud Watfa (Staines, Great Britain) and Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar (Staines, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G...