ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,893, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for dynamic user application control service" was invented by Raghuram Parvataneni (Frisco, Texas), Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas), Anil K. Guntupalli (Irving, Texas) and Mahesh Chapalamadugu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, network device, system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an dynamic user application control service that includes receiving from an application device, a request for access controls associated with a user application a...