US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 25 for "Issuance of a digital presentable user identity" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,690, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Issuance of a digital presentable user identity" was invented by Vishnu Janardhanan (Fremont, Calif.), Ahmer A. Khan (San Jose, Calif.), Gianpaolo Fasoli (Burlingame, Calif.), Dian Wen (San Jose, Calif.) and Hicham Lozi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for generating a verified data package. An example method includes receiving data including biographical information and an associated portrait. The method further includes causing a prompt for a user to capture a self-portrait photograph to be displayed based at least in pa...