US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 23 for "Associating decentralized identifiers with one or more devices" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,305, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Associating decentralized identifiers with one or more devices" was invented by Kim Cameron (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generating and associating decentralized identifiers (DIDs) for a group of one or more related devices. First, a device group DID is generated. The device group DID is associated with a group of one or more related devices. For each of the group of one or more related devices, a device DID is generated, and associated with the corresponding device. A scope of permission is granted to the device group DID. In res...