US Patent Issued on July 28 for "System and method for proxy-based credential custody with distributed validation" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,750, issued on July 28.

"System and method for proxy-based credential custody with distributed validation" was invented by Michael Pak (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a distributed credential custody system that fundamentally separates credential possession from credential usage. The system eliminates the primary vulnerability of conventional API security by storing actual access credentials within a secure credential management system while providing clients only with opaque credential handles that cannot be independently used for authentication. Multiple independent authenticators perf...