ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,671, issued on Aug. 25.

"Consent chain certification" was invented by Noreen Cohen-White (Murfreesboro, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for generating a signature token by receiving at least one consent artifact from a user, validating the user's identity based on a plurality of identity verification artifacts and the consent artifact, generating a consent certificate that associates a verification request with the identity and consent artifacts, and applying a binding operation to produce the signature token."

The patent was filed on June 11, 2025, under Application No. 19/235,293.

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