US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 17 for "Optimized registration and deregistration messaging to the UDM" (Washington, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,369, issued on March 17, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Optimized registration and deregistration messaging to the UDM" was invented by Subramania Kaushik (Bellevue, Wash.), Anil Kumar Mariyani (Ashburn, Va.) and Chris Jensen (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access and mobility management function (AMF) and a unified data management node (UDM) described herein are configured to refrain from sending messages between each other in the contexts of handovers between 4G (fourth generation) and 5G (fifth generation) technologies and of initial registration on 5G. During a handover from 5G to 4G, ...