ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,854, issued on July 7, was assigned to Age Checked Ltd. (London).

"Filtering, anonymizing, and storing anonymized data as part of an age verification process" was invented by Alastair Graham (London), Charles Grech (Birkirkara, Malta) and Conrad Micallef (Triq il-Hagar, Malta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method for securely verifying age of users of remote devices interacting with provider resources includes receiving a request for age verification of the user; providing directly to the user device an interface for input of identifying data; receiving, from the user device, identifying data; providing, to a third part...