ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,528, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Policy control function (PCF) registration based on equipment identity register (EIR) check in wireless communication networks" was invented by Kunal Prakash Barawkar (Bothell, Wash.), Swetha Gopisetti (Issaquah, Wash.) and Suresh Thanneeru (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments comprise a wireless communication network to qualify user devices for network policy association. In some examples, the wireless communication network comprises a network data system. The network data system receives an equipment identity check r...