ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,936, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods to optimize registration and session establishment in a wireless network" was invented by Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), James Mathison (Greer, S.C.) and Barry F. Hoffner (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) device may include a processor configured to receive a request associated with a user equipment (UE) device and obtain subscription information associated with the UE device from a subscription management device, wherein the subscription information includes a charging function...