US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Device based enhanced emergency network outage awareness" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,679, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Device based enhanced emergency network outage awareness" was invented by Gerald Robert Eisner (Pickerington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide an enhanced emergency call outage reporting service. A network device receives an emergency call notice message. The emergency call notice message indicates that an emergency call was placed from a user equipment (UE) device using a visited network. The network device compares the emergency call notice message with outage data for a ...