ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,333, issued on March 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for granular network configuration via network exposure function" was invented by Ye Huang (San Ramon, Calif.), Miguel A. Carames (Long Valley, N.J.), Ratul K. Guha (Warwick, Pa.), Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.) and Alexander Fadeev (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive monitoring information associated with a plurality of User Equipment ("UEs") that receive service via a wireless network. The system may identify, based on the received monit...