ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,928, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for device location reporting" was invented by Sudhir Korrapati (Acton, Mass.) and Carl Wang (Syosset, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive an indication of a first device location at a first time instance and based on a first location source, wherein the first device location is a first location of a device associated with a target asset. The network device may receive, in response to a movement of the device, an indication of a second device location at a second t...