ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,522, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Systems and methods for ledger-based cookie management" was invented by Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, Va.), Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.) and Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, systems and methods for ledger-based cookie management are provided. Rather than store cookie data as text files on the local device drive, cookie data is recorded to a blockchain technology cookie ledger store on a network resource. When a client application (e.g., a browser) on the UE is directed to a ...