US Patent Issued to DFINITY STIFTUNG on March 24 for "Identity services and authentication in distributed networks" (Swiss, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,394, issued on March 24, was assigned to DFINITY STIFTUNG (Zurich, Switzerland).

"Identity services and authentication in distributed networks" was invented by Joachim Breitner (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany), Jan Camenisch (Thalwil, Switzerland), Bjorn Tackmann (Zurich, Switzerland) and Dominic Williams (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of an aspect of the invention, there is a computer-implemented method for authenticating users of a network. The method comprises steps of maintaining, by an identity service, user accounts under a main user identifier, wherein the user accounts support a m...