ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,421, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for private network management" was invented by Hugo D Munoz-Sanchez (Bedminster, N.J.), Abdessamad Krieche (Milford, Mass.), Landon W Stogner (Flower Mound, Texas), Francisco A Varela (Union, N.J.) and Maria C Halili Zaballero (Ramsey, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for managing security associated with applications are provided. In an example, service allocation information associated with a plurality of private network sites of a private network associated...