US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Systems and methods for protecting account information associated with a stolen mobile device" (Texas, Pennsylvania, California, New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,128, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for protecting account information associated with a stolen mobile device" was invented by Kalyani Bogineni (Irving, Texas), Ratul K. Guha (Warwick, Pa.), Shanthala Kuravangi-Thammaiah (Keller, Texas), Dante J. Pacella (Charles Town, W.va.), Ye Huang (San Ramon, Calif.), Burhan Syed (Bridgewater, N.J.), Kevin Lim (Danville, Calif.), Vassilis Pafilis (Plano, Texas), Ashish Sardesai (Ashburn, Va.), Chris Halton (Park Ridge, N.J.) and Manuel Enrique Caceres (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device of ...