US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on April 22 for "Blockchain-based system for storing handle data of online platforms" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,474, issued on April 22, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Blockchain-based system for storing handle data of online platforms" was invented by Richard Harrington (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system collects handles of entities registered to post content on online platforms and stores the handles on a blockchain network. The stored handles can mitigate the effects of being deplatformed from the online platforms. In one example, the system registers global identifiers that each uniquely identify an entity. The system receives and indexes handles of various online platforms based on the global id...