US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on Oct. 14 for "System and method for determining device location and providing access authorization" (Texas, California, New Jersey, Washington, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,531, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for determining device location and providing access authorization" was invented by Jerry Steben (Fort Worth, Texas), Samirkumar Patel (Middlesex, N.J.), Ye Huang (San Ramon, Calif.), Helen Osias Eglip (Sammamish, Wash.), Anthony Mathias George (Springville, Utah) and Parry Cornell Booker (Sunnyvale, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the various embodiments, systems and methods are disclosed for determining the location of User Equipment (UE) in a network and for authorizing access to content based on said locatio...