US Patent Issued to Atsign on Sept. 2 for "Automation of user identity using network protocol providing secure granting or revocation of secured access rights" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,530, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Atsign Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automation of user identity using network protocol providing secure granting or revocation of secured access rights" was invented by Kevin Nickels (San Jose, Calif.), Colin Constable (Mariposa, Calif.) and Jagannadh Vanguri (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for user-controlled access control for user information. One example method includes sending an authentication request to authenticate as a requesting entity to a first decentralized resource directory of a prov...