ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,971, issued on July 1, was assigned to Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC (Richardson, Texas).

"Shared spectrum-controller enforcement of a sanction criterion" was invented by Christopher Poli (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During operation, a computer may receive information specifying a trusted identity of an electronic device in a network that uses a shared-license-access band of frequencies. Then, the computer may access a sanction criterion, which is stored in memory, where the sanction criterion comprises: a qualifying criterion in the shared-license-access band of frequencies associated with the electronic device, a...