ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,941, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for sharing unified data repository with managed network" was invented by Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas), Kyriaki Konstantinou (New York), Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.) and Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Unified Data Repository (UDR) may be included in a first network with a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifier (ID). The UDR may include a resource that comprises data at a child node. The resource may have a name corresponding to a second PLMN ID. The...