ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,167, issued on May 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Network access management" was invented by Yaron Koral (Cherry Hill, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Network access management can include receiving a request to enable network access for a guest user device at a geographic location associated with a gateway device. Connection parameters can be defined, the connection parameters including an effective-from date and time and an effective-to date and time. Credentials associated with the guest user device can be stored with data defining limits associated with the network access for the guest user de...