ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,970, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for determining reliability of channel quality measurements provided by user equipment" was invented by Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.), Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Andrew E. Youtz (Princeton, N.J.), Susan Wu Sanders (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Yong Sang Cho (Old Tappan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may output, during a particular time window (e.g., in a simulation environment), a series of wireless transmissions to one or more User Equipment ("UEs") of a particular type. The series of wireless...