US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on March 24 for "Systems and methods for network-initiated modification of access for lost or stolen devices" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,835, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network-initiated modification of access for lost or stolen devices" was invented by Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas) and Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may receive a first indication that a particular User Equipment ("UE") has been reported as lost or stolen. The first indication may be received via an interface with an Equipment Information Repository ("EIR"). The system may output, to an access function (e.g., an Access and Mobility Manage...