ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,615, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for granular distributed network function configuration updates in a wireless network" was invented by Deepak Majjiga (Irving, Texas) and Jason T. Wright (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may identify a plurality of configurable parameters associated with Network Functions ("NFs") of a wireless network; identify a link between a first parameter, associated with a first NF of the plurality of NFs, and a second parameter associated with a second NF of the plurality of NFs; indicate, t...