ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,715, issued on June 16, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for establishing protocol data unit sessions using session management subscription data" was invented by Barry F. Hoffner (Bridgewater, N.J.), James Mathison (Greer, S.C.) and Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a session management function (SMF) may receive, from an access and mobility management function (AMF), an SMF protocol data unit (PDU) session message that indicates a plurality of data network names (DNNs) capable of being handled by the SMF for a subscripti...