ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,104, issued on July 28, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods to enable programmable xHaul transport" was invented by Kristen Sydney Young (Morris Plains, N.J.) and Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to receive wireless communication network policies from an orchestration system. The device may be further configured to receive a notification from a radio access network (RAN) central unit (CU) that a packet data unit (PDU) session has been set up in the RAN, wherein the notification includes information assoc...