ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,458, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for supporting a network data analytics function based on inputs from an anchor user plane function" was invented by Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas), Rishi Tandon (Gurugram, India) and Munshi Ebne Chayen (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may provide a network function discovery request to a network repository function (NRF), and may receive, from the NRF, a network function discovery response that identifies a unified data management (UDM) component based on the network function...