ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,018, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Decentralized identity-based communication service" was invented by Andras L. Ferenczi (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for using decentralized identity services and generative large language models (LLMs) to facilitate a humanized interactive chatbot session between two entities where information exchanged can be verified for accuracy. An interactive session can be established between a chat wallet service associated with a first user (e.g., a credential holder) and a second user (e.g., ...