US Patent Issued to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES on June 3 for "Decentralized data authentication" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,526, issued on June 3, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Decentralized data authentication" was invented by Andras L Ferenczi (Peoria, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for decentralizing the authentication or verification of data. An identity key can be generated for a data item. A request can then be sent to an authentication service for authentication of the data item, the request comprising the identity key and the data item. A verified claim for the data item can then be received in response. Subsequently, an identity document is generated, the ...