US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 13 for "Spectrum allocation using a distributed ledger network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,117, issued on May 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Spectrum allocation using a distributed ledger network" was invented by James Kempf (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kumar Balachandran (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a spectrum owner system are described. The spectrum owner system records, in a distributed ledger network, a list of spectrum resources licensed from a regulatory authority system to the spectrum owner system. The spectrum owner system receives an authorization request for a spectrum allocation of spectrum resources, where the spectrum allocation inclu...