ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,446, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"System and method for identifying user equipment" was invented by Chai-Hien Gan (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Bo-Wei Chen (Changhua County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is method for identifying a user equipment (UE), including: generating a RAN UE ID corresponding to the UE through a base station; when the UE submits a register request with an enrichment information provider, receiving a packet of the UE through the base station, obtaining the IP address corresponding to the UE based on the packet and transmitting the...