US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Nov. 11 for "Systems and methods for network-based identification of priority services" (Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,654, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for network-based identification of priority services" was invented by Kashif Khan (Keller, Texas), Danysel Barthelme (Frisco, Texas), Ronald E. Collier II (Arlington, Texas), Ertao Li (Plano, Texas), Steve L. Padilla (Grapevine, Texas), Gaurav Patel (McKinney, Texas), Shawn R. Pugh (Easton, Pa.), Shujaat Ali Siddique (Hillsborough, N.J.), Daniel L. Walker (Wall Township, N.J.) and John Cao Vinh Nguyen (Trophy Club, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network device may receive, from a user device, a call associate...