US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Dec. 23 for "System and method for supporting access traffic steering, switching and splitting-enabled evolved packet data gateway" (California, Washington, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,304, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for supporting access traffic steering, switching and splitting-enabled evolved packet data gateway" was invented by Chien-Yuan Huang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Amir Hossein Khastoo (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein enable 5G core session management function (SMF)/user plan function (UPF) relocation to support ATSSS-enabled evolved packet data gateways (ePDG). An ePDG receives an access traffic steering, switching and splitting (ATSSS) t...