ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,978, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems directed to blockchain-enabled collaborative application deployment and operation" was invented by Xu Li (Plainsboro, N.J.), Chonggang Wang (Princeton, N.J.), Robert Gazda (Spring City, Pa.), Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada) and Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a WTRU may include transmitting, to a network element, a request to join a collaboration infrastructure associated with one or more activities. In addition, the WTRU may...