US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on June 3 for "Systems and methods for network based geographic anchor selection" (Minnesota, Michigan, Georgia, Massachusetts, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,818, issued on June 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network based geographic anchor selection" was invented by Sasha Faye Schaafsma (Twin Lake, Mich.), Charles Aaron Robeck (Byron, Minn.), Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Brandon Scott Atkins (Evans, Ga.) and Zachary S. Wozich (Casco, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include identifying, in a network, a location of a Fifth Generation (5G) node and determining, based on the location of the 5G node and capabilities associated with the 5G node, a number of areas around the 5G node, wherein each area ...