ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,122, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for allocating group id for group transmission of PFCP session contexts, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Kisuk Kweon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sangsoo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to: a communication technique for merging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system; and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, sm...