ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,253, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to GOGO BUSINESS AVIATION LLC (Broomfield, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for controlling user data consumption" was invented by Zhiyong Wang (Vernon Hills, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for controlling user data consumption are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving a user connection to a network on-board a vehicle, the network being an on-board network; and executing a volume control with credit (VCC) algorithm. Executing the VCC algorithm includes provisioning a data credit for the user connection corresponding to an initial usage estimate, placing the user conn...