US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 29 for "Apparatuses and methods for detecting characteristics of one or more tether devices" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,971, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Apparatuses and methods for detecting characteristics of one or more tether devices" was invented by Vinay Sharma (Keansburg, N.J.), Natalia Schenck (Dallas), Yuan Ding (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Pradeep K. Bansal (Monmouth Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining input data, processing the input data to generate output data, the output data including an identification of one or more characteristics associated with tethered communications involving at least a first user equipment, ...