ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,160, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to MASTERCARD ASIA/PACIFIC PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Method and system for establishing digital identity in international trade" was invented by Anthony Paul Murphy (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing a digital identity includes: receiving, by a receiver of a processing server, at least an identification value from a first computing system; identifying, by a processor of the processing server, a verification authority based on the identification value; transmitting, by a transmitter of the processing server, at least the identification value to a second computing syst...