ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,483, issued on July 8, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for preventing user device pinging in asynchronous communication mode" was invented by Lixia Yan (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Violeta Cakulev (Milburn, N.J.), Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.) and Robert Avanes (Roanoke, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive a context creation request based on a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request for establishing a PDU session with a user device, and may generate a policy context request based on receiving the context creation request. The ne...