ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,923, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Aerial service" was invented by Jinsook Ryu (Oakton, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.) and Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device receives, from a first network, one or more messages comprising an authentication and/or authorization (AA) status of the wireless device indicating whether the wireless device is authenticated and/or authorized for an aerial service, and a parameter indicating that an interface between the first network and a ...