ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,331, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for user-triggered service boost" was invented by Ratul K. Guha (Warwick, Pa.), Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Zainab Ababri (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a network device may receive an indication that a user equipment (UE) satisfied one or more conditions to obtain a temporary performance increase for wireless traffic. The network device may store information associating a wireless network subscription of the UE with the temporary performance increase based on the indication. The...