US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Oct. 27 for "Tracking and protecting lost or stolen mobile devices via a dedicated network slice" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,310, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Tracking and protecting lost or stolen mobile devices via a dedicated network slice" was invented by Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Rashmi Palamadai (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method includes receiving a report indicating that a mobile device has been lost or stolen, sending, in response to the report, an instruction to the mobile device that causes the mobile device to connect to a network slice that is dedicated for protecting and tracking lost and stolen mobile devices, sending, in response to determ...