ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,089, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for establishing shared N3 tunnel" was invented by Yansheng Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zijiang Ma (Shenzhen, China) and Dapeng Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a system, device and method for establishing a shared N3 tunnel are disclosed. In some aspects, a wireless communication method includes: receiving, by a network node from a first one of a plurality of wireless communication nodes, a first message related to a tunnel configured to be shared by the plurality of wireless communication nodes. In some embodiments, t...