ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,890, issued on July 29, was assigned to BK Technologies Inc..

"System and method for managing access to a push-to-talk-over-cellular communication network" was invented by John Marvin Suzuki (Rockville, Md.), Lorenzo Cruger Jr. (Boynton Beach, Fla.) and James Lowell Teel Jr. (Lynchburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing access to a push-to-talk-over-cellular (POC) talkgroup may include providing a control device configured to provide a POC service and manage a first POC talkgroup. The method may further include controlling the control device to grant a first non-subscriber device access to the POC service and th...