ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,647, issued on July 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Dynamic inter-region connection distribution to 5G network functions" was invented by Brian D. Ross (Little Rock, Ark.), Madhan Muralimanohar (Tampa, Fla.), Calvin Waverley Bell (Dallas) and Stojan Dabic (North Little Rock, Ark.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments involve recording performance metrics for network connections in a centralized database, storing network connection data in a global registry across multiple data centers, detecting backlogs at specific data centers linked to network elements and connection...