ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,907, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Initial attach priorization 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 subscriber locator function (SLF) and performing a database lookup at the SLF. Methods further include obtaining a subscriber priority from the database lookup and transmitting the subscribe...