US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 18 for "Techniques for correcting anomalous activity caused by smart contracts" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,017, issued on March 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Techniques for correcting anomalous activity caused by smart contracts" was invented by Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can correct or avoid an unexpected result caused by executing a smart contract. The system can detect a potential/actual result generated based on a primary smart contract, which is stored in association with a block of a blockchain and is configured to execute when a predetermined condition is satisfied. The system can determine that the potential/actual result deviates from an expecte...