US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on March 3 for "System and method for validating authority of device based on IP address" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,378, issued on March 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for validating authority of device based on IP address" was invented by Jude M. Munn (Pittsburg, Calif.) and Keefe Leiter (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes one or more network devices. The network devices are configured to: poll one or more devices to obtain a list of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of User Equipment devices (UEs) that are authorized to access a network; obtain identifier-IP address pairs based on the IP addresses and identifiers (IDs) of the UEs; receive a request from a U...