ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,797, issued on June 10, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Radio access network (RAN) data exposure in a wireless communication network" was invented by Zheng Cai (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication network provides a wireless communication service to a User Equipment (UE) responsive to an Application Server (AS) that is external to the wireless communication network. A Network Exposure Function (NEF) receives a Radio Access Network (RAN) instruction from the AS. The RAN instruction controls the wireless communication service for the UE. The NEF transfers the RAN instruc...