ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,482, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"User plane congestion control service" was invented by Yousef Abdelmalek (New Providence, N.J.), Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), Violeta Cakulev (Millburn, N.J.) and Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a user plane congestion control service is provided. The service may analyze congestion information of user plane traffic in data sessions associated with a plurality of end devices. The service may include selecting, based on...