ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,854, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for core network bypass in a wireless network" was invented by Mark T. Watts (Newport, R.I.), David Taft (Keller, Texas) and Donna L. Polehn (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive an indication that a particular User Equipment ("UE") has wirelessly connected to a radio access network ("RAN") of a wireless network. The RAN may be communicatively coupled to a core network of the wireless network. The system may identify that a core bypass policy is associated with the ...