ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,424, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Digital wallet as a relying party in a decentralized network" was invented by Brandon Murdoch (Reading, Great Britain), Ankur Patel (Sammamish, Wash.) and Frank Michael Chiachiere (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is generated for verifiable claims that are related to services that a user is to provide to an entity that requests the services from the user. The request for the services is then provided to the requesting entity. The requested verifiable claims are then received from the requesting entity and are verified to det...