ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,761, issued on June 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Mitigating mobile monitoring device excess network utilization" was invented by Carlos Eduardo De Andrade (Gainesville, Fla.) and Cheuk Yiu Ip (Metuchen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor may identify an excess utilization of a telecommunication network by a plurality of mobile monitoring devices. The plurality of mobile monitoring devices may be of a same mobile monitoring device type. In addition, the plurality of mobile monitoring devices may be associated with a plurality of users and wherein ...