ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,256, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Unified access control for a cellular network" was invented by Nirlesh Koshta (Bangalore, India), Vinay Mysore Viswanath (San Diego), Anikethan Ramakrishna Vijaya Kumar (Mysuru, India), Pradeep Pangi (Bengaluru, India) and Sridhar Prakasam (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine a first access attempt to access a first network service is associated with a first access category, wherein the first access category is associated with a first Unified Access Control (UAC) rule, wherein the first UAC rule has a...