US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on Sept. 8 for "Packet core network (PCN) selection of collocated gateways" (Washington, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,047, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Packet core network (PCN) selection of collocated gateways" was invented by Kameswaran Arunachalam (Redmond, Wash.), Rushabhkumar Patel (Newcastle, Wash.), Rahul Pal (Bellevue, Wash.), Kunal Prakash Barawkar (Bothell, Wash.) and Samir Ramesh Shura (Olathe, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for packet core network (PCN) gateway selection of collocated gateways are disclosed herein. A mobility management entity (MME) can retrieve charging characteristics (CC) information to determine whether collocated gateway selection is applicable for a UE. Wh...