US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for discovering user plane function UPF in wireless communication system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,993, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for discovering user plane function UPF in wireless communication system" was invented by Kisuk Kweon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Naman Gupta (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a serving user plane function (UPF) entity in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving, from an application function (AF) entity, a request ...