US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 17 for "System and method for controlling closed subscriber group access to networks" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,059, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for controlling closed subscriber group access to networks" was invented by Amir Saghir (Frisco, Texas) and Said Hanbaly (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A femtocell may include a processor. The processor may be configured to: receive Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) identifiers (IDs) that identify PLMNs; receive, for each of the first PLMN IDs, a unique Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) ID; and broadcast the PLMN IDs and, for each of the PLMN IDs, the unique CSG ID."

The patent was filed on June 17, 2022, u...