ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,837, issued on April 8, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for quantum based network time validation" was invented by Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.) and Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a quantum computing based network time validation function that can evaluate a large set of network time reference signals (e.g., a set of timestamps) and rapidly identify aberrations that can negatively affect network operation. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving a set of task data comprisin...