ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,855, issued on May 6, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).
"Systems and methods for authenticating users for subscribed services" was invented by Satish K. Singh (Chennai, India), Vijay A. Senthil (Chennai, India) and Jaykishan Tiwari (Irving, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a first device may connect to a network, wherein the first device is associated with a first application that is associated with a service provider. The first device may detect that a second device connected to the network is associated with a second application that is associated with the service ...