US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Sept. 29 for "Systems and methods for blocking or allowing calls in a wireless network" (Texas, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,444, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for blocking or allowing calls in a wireless network" was invented by Alejandro Lopez (South Bound Brook, N.J.), Lulia Ann Barakat (McKinney, Texas) and Timothy M. Dwight (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network element may receive information indicating a list of user equipments (UEs) that are off a wireless network. The network element may receive a verification request to verify a call received by the wireless network. The network element may determine, in response to t...