ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,523, issued on March 24, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).

"Decentralized identifier based authentication with verifiable credentials" was invented by Ajay Babu Maddukuri (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various approaches for authenticating users using verifiable credentials. An enrollment request is received from a browser. In response to the enrollment request, a set of authentication questions can be selected. The set of authentication questions can then be sent to the browser. Next, a set of answers to a subset of the set of authentication questions is receive...