ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,953, issued on July 29, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for obtaining data for network analytics from a non-3GPP interworking function" was invented by Vijayakrishna P. Guduru (Denville, N.J.), Anthony Clay Reynolds (Rhome, Texas), Raquel Morera Sempere (Weehawken, N.J.) and Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include providing a network data analytics function (NWDAF) in a network and providing, a non-third generation partnership project (3GPP) interworking function (N3IWF) in the network. The method may also include subsc...