US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 22 for "Authenticating ownership of digital objects in online marketplaces" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,283, issued on April 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Authenticating ownership of digital objects in online marketplaces" was invented by Rajesh Kalathil Narayanan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Praveen Sattaru (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital object is associated with a smart contract that stores a first hash value to represent a user device used to acquire ownership of the digital object. When a request to transfer ownership of the digital object from a first user to a second user is received, a user account of the first user is accessed to retrieve information identifying a user device assoc...