ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,546, issued on May 13, was assigned to Changefly Inc. (Seattle).

"Anonymous authentication system and methods for obscuring authentication information in networked computing systems" was invented by Lukas J. Dickie (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for anonymously authenticating a client device and/or user are disclosed. An authentication system can register and/or activate a client device and provide the client device with credentials for accessing or otherwise logging into a third-party application. The client device can provide the third-party application with credentials received from the authentication s...