ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,472, issued on April 8, was assigned to Bloxtel Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for asymmetric authentication in decentralized mobile networks" was invented by Ismaila Wane (San Francisco) and Karsten Ohme (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processing device, communications hardware configured to enable wireless communication by the apparatus, and a universal integrated circuit card (UICC). The UICC stores a decentralized electronic subscriber identity module (dSIM) that hosts a decentralized access application that is configured to exchange information with a decentralized mobile netw...