ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,308, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Boost SubscriberCo LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Systems and methods for flexible access to priority access tiers in shared radio frequency (RF) spectrum bands" was invented by Owen W. Barry (Castle Rock, Colo.), Adam H. Saenger (Castle Pines, Colo.), Jennings Maxwell Orcutt (Denver) and Christopher Ergen (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include systems and methods for flexible access to priority access tiers in shared radio frequency (RF) spectrum bands. An example embodiment provides automated mechanisms for network operators to obtain the benefits of using a priority acc...