ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,936, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DrFirst.com Inc. (Claymont, Del.).

"Anonymized interface for ticket based authentication" was invented by Christian Nichols (Diamond Bar, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, system, and programs provide automatic anonymization of protected data items when a request is associated with authentication via a ticket. Ticket authentication includes sending a ticket to a recipient address. The ticket is included in a request for information. Responsive to receiving a request with a ticket, an example system may determine if the ticket is still valid and, if so, generate mock identifiers for ...