ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,404, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for uplink classifier and branching point service" was invented by Yousef Abdelmalek (New Providence, Texas), Maqbool Chauhan (Keller, Texas), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas) and Parry Cornell Booker (Arlington, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an uplink classifier and branching point service is provided. The service may include the management of user plane function devices or uplink classifier devices according to various architecture...