US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Systems and methods for deactivating stolen user equipment and a session for the stolen user equipment" (Texas, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,003, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for deactivating stolen user equipment and a session for the stolen user equipment" was invented by Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas), Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, Texas), Dante J. Pacella (Charles Town, W.va.), Chris Halton (Park Ridge, N.J.) and Ashish Sardesai (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive, from an equipment identity register, a status of a user equipment and a notification indicating that the user equipment is lost or stolen, and may provide, to a unified data m...