ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,708, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for priority-aware network function restoration in a wireless network" was invented by Riyaj Uddin Ahmed (Coppell, Texas), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas) and Jerry Steben (Forth Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may implement a first instance of a particular Network Function ("NF") in a wireless network. The first NF instance may receive an instruction to restore functionality of a second instance of the particular NF, including a p...