US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for exposing user equipment identities to applications" (California, New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,635, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for exposing user equipment identities to applications" was invented by Ye Huang (San Ramon, Calif.), Gerardo S. Libunao (Manalapan, N.J.), Raghuram Parvataneni (Edison, N.J.), Ravi Sharma (Freehold, N.J.), Kirk Campbell (Long Valley, N.J.), Suzann Hua (Beverly Hills, Calif.), Alexander Fadeev (Summit, N.J.), Miguel A. Carames (Long Valley, N.J.) and Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprises a Network Exposure Function (NEF) and a Session Management Function (SMF). The...