ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,892, issued on July 8, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Wireless communication network service using an application programming interface (API) and distributed ledger" was invented by Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless communication network, an Application Function (AF) exposes an Application Programming Interface (API) for User Equipment (UE) information, and in response, receives API calls from an external data system. The AF transfers API responses to the external data system. The AF transfers API usage data to distributed ledger circuitry. The di...