ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,285, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for network management and fairness criteria adjustment in cellular networks for multi-dwelling units" was invented by Christopher Schmidt (Branchburg, N.J.), Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.) and Brian T. Mecum (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for managing data transmission within a cellular network. A base station detects the attachment of a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) gateway. Upon detection, the base station determines a traffic cap for the FWA gateway based on this attachm...