ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,716, issued on May 26.

"Method and system for authenticating remote transactions using multiple identifiers and no encryption" was invented by Mansour Aaron Karimzadeh (Great Neck, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for authenticating a remote transaction relies on modified user identifiers, each having a user identifier associated with a registered user obfuscated therein, a first one stored on an authentication device and a second one on a user device in a registration process. A first bitwise distance is calculated between the first modified user identifier and a modified user identifier that is based on the se...