U.S. Patent 11082850 was awarded to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P. on August 03, 2021 and is entitled “Blockchain based wireless access point password management.” The first named inventor is Rick Tipton of Corryton, TN. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Techniques are disclosed herein for managing and sharing credentials, such as passwords for wireless access points using blockchain technology. In certain embodiments, a transaction may be generated using information and a set of conditions. A requester user device seeking access to a wireless access point may request the password from the blockchain fabric using a unique identifier for the wireless access point and may satisfy other conditions from the set of conditions which determines access to the password by the requester. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on June 26, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/019376 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11082850. The primary examiner was Kendall Dolly.

AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 16621 total granted patents in the United States as of the date of this article. This blockchain patent has been cited 0 times by other U.S. patents according to our law firm research, and can be considered an innovative patent in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

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