ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,791, issued on April 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for providing priority for user equipment" was invented by Toby Varughese John (Murphy, Texas), Bibi M. Hakimzadeh (Fort Worth, Texas), Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Chien-Yuan Huang (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a first private certificate and a second private certificate, and may provision the network device with the first private certificate and the second private certificate. The network device may receive, from a first UE, an IKE SA INIT request with a fi...