US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on June 16 for "Data and source validation for equipment output data or equipment failure prediction using blockchains" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,167, issued on June 16, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Data and source validation for equipment output data or equipment failure prediction using blockchains" was invented by Steven M. Casey (Littleton, Colo.), Kevin M. McBride (Lone Tree, Colo.), William O'Brien Jr. (Aurora, Colo.) and Stephen Opferman (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing data and source validation for equipment output data and/or for equipment failure predict. In various embodiments, in response to receiving a first request for first data that is output by first equipment, ...