US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for network-assisted authentication and location services" (Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,548, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network-assisted authentication and location services" was invented by Rahul Nalam (Delaware, Ohio), Dante J. Pacella (Charles Town, W.va.), Ashish Sardesai (Ashburn, Va.), David J. Strumwasser (Somerville, N.J.) and Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive a first authentication request that includes a first identifier of a User Equipment ("UE"), and a second identifier of a second device. The system may output a second authentication request to a...