US Patent Issued to Verizon Patent and Licensing on March 18 for "Systems and methods for validation of wireless network infrastructure using blockchain techniques" (Texas, West Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,290, issued on March 18, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for validation of wireless network infrastructure using blockchain techniques" was invented by Sumanth S. Mallya (Flower Mound, Texas) and Dante J. Pacella (Charles Town, W.va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system described herein may identify a particular value that was wirelessly received by a User Equipment ("UE") at a first time. The particular value may have been recorded to a blockchain, along with a second time, at which the particular value was outputted by a base station of a wireless network. The partic...