US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Aug. 19 for "System and method for identifying collocated cellular devices from known fraudulent devices" (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,845, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for identifying collocated cellular devices from known fraudulent devices" was invented by Timothy E. Coyle (Chicopee, Mass.), Ammara Essa (Raritan, N.J.), Matthew Kapala (North Billerica, Mass.), Hector Alejandro Garcia Crespo (North Richland Hills, Texas), Mark David Lufburrow (Nazareth, Pa.) and Jacob S. Lynch (Sacramento, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving an identity of fraudulent user equipment (UE); identifying a plurality...