ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,180, issued on Nov. 3.

"Digital identity allocation, assignment, and management" was invented by Naga Rohit Samineni (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teachings include computer program products, systems, methods, and platforms for the assignment, distribution, allocation, authentication, and authorization of cryptographic digital identities. This may include automatic digital identity creation-without requiring prior authentication or proof of ownership by an entity-and/or usage of such digital identities. That is, in aspects, the obtaining of unique identifiers and/or the generation of cryptographic secre...