ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,709, issued on May 5, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for explicit congestion notification in a radio access network" was invented by Jin Yang (Orinda, Calif.), Wei David Huang (Danville, Calif.) and Gerardo S. Libunao (Manalapan, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to monitor a data flow, associated with a user equipment (UE) device, in a Radio Access Network (RAN). The processor may be further configured to detect a congestion condition for the monitored data flow associated with the UE device; generate an Explicit Congestion Not...