ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,937, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for a scalable network architecture for diverse network element management" was invented by Konstantinos Kanonakis (Dallas), Sanjay Nayak (San Jose, Calif.), Manoj Chokka (Andhra Pradesh, India), Ashoka Chikkanayakanahalli Kote (Edison, N.J.), Yaojun Zeng (San Jose, Calif.) and Songtao Qiu (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for a network framework for managing network elements (NEs) of a wireless/cellular and wireline network. The framework enables the scaling of a quantity, ...