US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for congestion aware policy enforcement" (Georgia, Washington, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,998, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for congestion aware policy enforcement" was invented by Lap Tse (Marietta, Ga.), David Taft (Keller, Texas), Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, Wash.) and Samirkumar Patel (Middlesex, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to detect a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session associated with a user equipment (UE) device. The processor may be further configured to obtain at least one congestion metric value for a base station associated with the PDU session; determine that the obtained at le...