ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,053, issued on July 1, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Determining network coverage and network bandwidth via blockchain enabled ESIM/UE systems" was invented by Jennings Maxwell Orcutt (Denver) and Christopher William Krasny Ergen (Littleton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to determining network coverage and/or network bandwidth. In some aspects, a method includes detecting, by a user device, one or more signals at a particular location, each of the one or more signals corresponding to a wireless network available at the particular location; for each particular wireless network ava...