US Patent Issued to Data Zoo on March 17 for "Method for electronic identity verification and management" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,240, issued on March 17, was assigned to Data Zoo Pty Ltd. (North Sydney, Australia).

"Method for electronic identity verification and management" was invented by Memoona Anwar (North Sydney, Australia) and Antony Fitzgibbon (North Sydney, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for electronic identity verification and management includes receiving a request for verification of identity for a customer from a service provider; requesting consent from the customer to access data from one or more data holders associated with the customer; receiving consent from the customer to access data from the one or more data holders and...