ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,873, issued on April 21, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for control of applications based on quality of service monitoring" was invented by David Damin Liu (Livermore, Calif.), Rishi Tandon (Gurugram, India), Kristen Sydney Young (Mine Hill, N.J.) and Yueping Zhang (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive network data identifying a topology of network devices of a network, quality of service (QoS) rules for user equipment (UEs) and application flows associated with the network, QoS profiles for a radio access network (RAN) of the network, and ...