ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,651, issued on May 5, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Decentralized network reward data usage tracking" was invented by Howard Lang (Wayside, N.J.), Jasminka Dizdarevic (Austin, Texas), Willem DuPlessis (Parkland, Fla.), Joseph Soryal (Glendale, N.Y.), Nicholas Thompson (Lake In The Hills, Ill.) and Marcus Thor (Oak Harbor, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device comprising: a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system...