US Patent Issued to DISH Network on Sept. 30 for "Road accident detection and avoidance using blockchain" (Wyoming Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,348, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Road accident detection and avoidance using blockchain" was invented by Sean Edward Bales (Cheyenne, Wyo.) and Christofer Michael Hardy (Cheyenne, Wyo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for road accident avoidance receives sensor data from computing devices associated with vehicles traveling on a road. The system communicates the sensor data to a blockchain network as blockchain records. The system determines that the sensor data includes an indication of a road accident. The system determines a location of the road accident from the sensor data. Th...