ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,423, issued on June 3, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for multi-level authentication" was invented by Umesh Kumar Gupta (Morris Plains, N.J.), Bharadwaj Vemuri (Bear, Del.), Binaben Dipesh Patel (Franklin Park, N.J.) and Masudur Rahman (Somerset, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may provide for multiple levels of authentication, such that a User Equipment ("UE") may receive secure content from an application server, which may include or may be implemented by a multi-access edge computing ("MEC") system. As described herein, a user associated wi...