ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,945, issued on March 24, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"User equipment policy rule inconsistency determination using detection codes" was invented by Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), David Taft (Keller, Texas), Samirkumar Patel (Middlesex, N.J.) and Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives User Equipment device (UE) Policy Section Codes (UPSCs) and a first version of associated UE policy rules. The device further receives first inconsistency detection codes for the UPSCs and a current version of the associated UE policy rules. The device det...