ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,217, issued on March 31, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for managing application authentication in a wireless network" was invented by David Vercillo (Carbonado, Wash.) and Anthony Yiu (Newcastle, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for authenticating applications in a wireless network. Methods include determining that an application uses IP authentication. The methods further include querying a policy server for information on an IP address of a client running the application, wherein the information includes a device type indicator for the IP a...