ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,001, issued on July 1, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for analytics and information sharing between a radio access network and a core network" was invented by Sandeep Sarma (Chennai, India), Kristen Sydney Young (Mine Hill, N.J.) and Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may register a particular radio access network ("RAN")-based interface, such as a R1 interface, with a RAN, such as an Open-RAN ("O-RAN"). The system may further be associated with a particular Service-Based Interface ("SBI") of a core network tha...