ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,904, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for wireline access to a wireless core network" was invented by Chien-Yuan Huang (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Glenda T. Baloto (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may securely obtain access to a wireless core network, and may identify a particular endpoint associated with a particular physical interface of a plurality of physical interfaces of the device. The device may request a communication session with the particular endpoint via the wireless core network. The device may receive, via the partic...