US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on July 1 for "Systems and methods for handling non-access stratum layer failures" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,094, issued on July 1, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for handling non-access stratum layer failures" was invented by Andrew E. Youtz (Princeton, N.J.), Deepa Jagannatha (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Lily Zhu (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to send a plurality of attach requests to a base station using a radio access technology (RAT) and determine that each of the plurality of attach requests has failed. The processor may be further configured to override a triggering of a backoff timer, wherein the UE device is barred...