ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,152, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Littleton, Colo.).

"Blockchain call origination for emergency services" was invented by Kate Megan Carney Landow (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements for performing blockchain-based emergency call origination are presented herein. An emergency communication can be routed between a piece of user equipment (UE) and a public safety answering point (PSAP) via a network, such as a cellular network or ISP network. One or more nodes of the network can update a blockchain ledger used to route the emergency communication. The blockchain ledger can be accessed to...