ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,723, issued on May 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for providing network failure and cause code handling in 5G networks" was invented by Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, Wash.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas) and Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive historical data identifying historical error data and error data categorizations associated with a first core network and may store the historical data in a data structure. The network device may receive a request ass...