ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,049, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for premium session retainability in core networks" was invented by Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), Emerando M. Delos Reyes (Pleasant Hill, Calif.), Matthew W. Nelson (Pleasanton, Calif.), Raymond WaiMan So (San Ramon, Calif.) and Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein enable premium session retainability for differentiation of services with respect to network function failures. A first network function of a core network obtains a session rete...