ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,070, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).
"Managing verifiable credential linkages using decentralized identity" was invented by Andras L. Ferenczi (Phoenix) and Mukund Shankar SimhaRaghu (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for managing a graph of decentralized identifiers (DIDs) associated with verifiable credentials (VCs) and verifiable credential linkages or relationships including those denoting linkages amongst verifiable credentials of different users. The DID tree graph can be maintained and managed to ensure that the DIDs and...