US Patent Issued to Block on May 5 for "Credential issuing pools in a decentralized network" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,699, issued on May 5, was assigned to Block Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Credential issuing pools in a decentralized network" was invented by Michael Rihani (Palo Alto, Calif.), Alice Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel Buchner (Austin, Texas), Jonathan Blackwell (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Moiz Jangda (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are described herein for improvements in the security of verifiable credentials. A method can include requesting, by a first decentralized identifier (DID) associated with a decentralized web node (DWN), a verifiable credential from a second DID, wherein the second DID is included in a po...