ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,652, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for carrier aggregation combination using device data and network data" was invented by Ammara Essa (Los Angeles), Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Hector A. Garcia Crespo (N Richland Hills, Texas) and Matthew Kapala (North Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier aggregation platform may obtain device data regarding first UEs associated with a geographical area and determine a data distribution of make and model combinations of the first UEs. The platform may analyze the data distribution to ident...