US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on April 1 for "Systems and methods for virtualized session management" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,905, issued on April 1, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for virtualized session management" was invented by Jayshree A. Bharatia (Plano, Texas), Amir Saghir (Frisco, Texas), Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, N.J.) and Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to maintain a plurality of session management entities (SMEs) for a core network associated with a radio access network (RAN). The processor may be further configured to establish a communication session using a first SME, of the plurality of SMEs; store ...