ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,957, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for cellular preference" was invented by Balaji L. Raghavachari (Bridgewater, N.J.), Douglas C. Oesterlin (Fort Worth, Texas), Yong Sang Cho (Old Tappan, N.J.), Jeremy Nacer (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Andrew E. Youtz (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a network device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are described in relation to an cellular preference service. The cellular preference service may include a network-side service that manages cellular access preference relative to ...