ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,098, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Initial attach prioritization method and system" was invented by Anil Kumar Mariyani (Ashburn, Va.) and Subramania Kaushik (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and devices are provided for subscriber prioritization upon initial attachment. Methods include receiving notification of an initial attach request from a wireless device at a core network component, obtaining a subscriber priority during the initial attach procedure, and sharing the subscriber priority with the network component responding to the initial attach...