ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,407, issued on July 14, was assigned to AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"Apparatuses and methods for facilitating a quality of service aware uplink delivery mechanism for devices in conjunction with networks and systems" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assigning each of a plurality of devices with a first configuration, the first configuration being associated with a first priority level in terms of a priority of access to resources of a communication network or system, subsequent to the assigning, allocating a firs...