US Patent Issued to Helium Systems on July 21 for "Systems and methods for providing and using proof of coverage in a decentralized wireless network" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,897, issued on July 21, was assigned to Helium Systems (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for providing and using proof of coverage in a decentralized wireless network" was invented by Amir Haleem (San Francisco), Andrew Thompson (San Francisco), Andrew Allen (San Francisco), Marc Nijdam (San Francisco), Rahul Garg (San Francisco) and Jay Kickliter (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing and using a decentralized network using a blockchain. A provider (and/or miner) may provide network coverage to one or more devices in return for tokens on the blockchain. The blockchain...