ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,931, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for optimized network device communications" was invented by Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas) and Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a unified data repository (UDR) device may receive, from a policy control function (PCF) device, an addition request to add access and mobility (AM) policy data to an AM policy data resource of the UDR device. The AM policy data may be associated with a user equipment (UE). The UDR devi...