ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,334, issued on June 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Detection of group membership for coordinated connectivity" was invented by Carl Wang (Syosset, N.Y.) and Sudhir Korrapati (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a group member list is received in a device, and a group reporting schedule is received in the device. Reporting data is communicated by the device using the group reporting schedule. A group exit message is sent by the device responsive to determining a group exit condition associated with...