ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,027, issued on June 17, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for user equipment reliability and availability in a wireless network" was invented by Vijayakrishna P. Guduru (Denville, N.J.), Sudhakar Reddy Patil (Flower Mound, Texas), Raquel Morera Sempere (Weehawken, N.J.) and Vishwanath Ramamurthi (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first User Equipment ("UE") may communicate with a second UE via a communication link to determine an operational status of the second UE. The second UE may be connected to a network via one or more communication sessions. The first...