US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 16 for "Dynamically verifying authenticity and validity of credentials" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,168, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically verifying authenticity and validity of credentials" was invented by Alessandro Sorniotti (Zurich), Elli Androulaki (Zurich, Switzerland), Ilie Circiumaru (Zurich), Jens Jelitto (Rueschlikon, Switzerland) and Pasquale Convertini (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving a request to verify authenticity of a credential that indicates that an associated holder has a set of certified attributes. In response to determining that the credential ...