ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,303, issued on March 18, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for emergency broadcast using delegated discovery" was invented by Hossein M. Ahmadi (Parsippany, N.J.), Ali Imdad Malik (East Brunswick, N.J.), Violeta Cakulev (Millburn, N.J.) and Lalit R. Kotecha (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to disclosed embodiments, as discussed below, a cell broadcasting framework is provided including receiving a request from a Network Function (NF) consumer by a service communication proxy (SCP) on a network, the request including a set of parameters, identifyin...