ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,629, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network credential policy enforcement in a wireless network" was invented by Suresh Ramaswamy (Westford, Mass.), Samuel K. Periasamy (Plano, Texas), Sunil Yadawad (Westford, Mass.) and Sameh El-Gawady (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may maintain policy information associating a plurality of network credentials with respective device identifiers of User Equipment ("UEs") that are authorized to use respective network credentials to access a network. The system may receive net...