US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 11 for "Tracking subsea telecommunications asset capacity and spectrum" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,143, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Tracking subsea telecommunications asset capacity and spectrum" was invented by Matthew Paul Webster (Hollister, Calif.), Sean Christopher Kurbanick (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Agnetha Garcia (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a first asset token that represents control, by a first entity, of a portion of a physical communication asset. The method includes publishing, to a distributed ledger, ownership of the first asset token and receiving, from a second entity, a request to control the portion of the physical co...