ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,069, issued on May 26, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).
"Decentralized credential gating" was invented by Gabriel Cohen (Oakland, Calif.) and Daniel Buchner (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gating logic is described to control access based on verifiable credentials. The gating logic is employable in a variety of ways to leverage verifiable credentials in support of identity, qualifications, or other attributes of an entity, and may do so without exposing personal information. To do so, a software development kit is described in one or more examples that is configured to incorporate gating logic at a service p...