ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,329, issued on June 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Methods and apparatuses for establishment of PDU session" was invented by Yunjie Lu (Shanghai) and Stefan Rommer (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for establishment of protocol data unit (PDU) session are disclosed. A first network function determines whether a first session management function (SMF) for a PDU session to be established for a terminal device supports insertion/change of a second SMF. When determining that the first SMF for the PDU session does not support insertion/change of the se...