ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,908, issued on July 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Radio network resource sharing based on a distributed ledger" was invented by Ajmal Muhammad (Sollentuna, Sweden), Rafia Inam (Vasteras, Sweden) and Athanasios Karapantelakis (Solna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for sharing radio network resources in a distributed ledger (DL) network that is operated between a plurality of participants including a first participant and a second participant. A DL node of the second participant determines from a distributed ledger of the DL network a smart contract that allows shari...