US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Telephone number deactivation process" (Indian, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,673, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Telephone number deactivation process" was invented by Shilpa Shetty (Sydney), Jignesh K. Karia (Thane, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Deepa Dubey (Mumbai, India), Pankaj Satyanarayan Dayama (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Awal (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for deactivating telephone numbers are presented. The method includes, in response to a request to deactivate a telephone number, communicating a query to a blockchain for the telephone number, wherein a block on the blockchain identifie...