U.S. Patent 11206194 was awarded to Sprint Communications Company L.P. on December 21, 2021 and is entitled “Authorization for access to functions in a network slice.” The first named inventor is Lyle Walter Paczkowski of Mission Hills, KS. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

A method of authorizing access to a plurality of enterprise services provided by a network slice. The method comprises receiving a first message from an electronic device by an authorization module that executes on a computer system on which a network slice executes and wherein the first message requests access to a first enterprise service that executes in the network slice, based on accessing and examining a first block of a blockchain associated with the network slice by the authorization module, determining by the authorization module that the electronic device is authorized to access the first enterprise service, passing the first message to the first enterprise service for processing. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on August 28, 2019  as U.S. Patent Application 16/554559 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11206194. The primary examiner was Suraj M Joshi.

Sprint Communications Company L.P., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 3700 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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