U.S. Patent 11159945 was awarded to T-Mobile USA, Inc. on October 26, 2021 and is entitled “Protecting a telecommunications network using network components as blockchain nodes.” The first named inventor is Ahmad Arash Obaidi of Issaquah, WA. The abstract contains an overview of the patent disclosure:

Systems and methods are described herein for providing a telecommunications network, such as a wireless network, LTE (Long Term Evolution) network, and so on, with blockchain nodes, agents, or sub-nodes. The blockchain nodes enable network components to access and maintain a blockchain for the network, such as a distributed ledger that tracks actions, activities, or other transaction associated with the telecommunications network. Link to Full Patent

This blockchain patent was originally filed on December 31, 2018  as U.S. Patent Application 16/237607 at the United Stated Patent and Trademark Office. The application was them awarded a patent grant and published as U.S. Patent 11159945. The primary examiner was Josnel Jeudy.

T-Mobile USA, Inc., who is the original assignee of this patent, has at least 1424 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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