US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 5 for "Authentication of communication session participants using blockchain" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,157, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Authentication of communication session participants using blockchain" was invented by Michal Aichinger (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which utilize authentication tokens recorded to a blockchain to identify and/or authenticate participants of a network-based communication session such as a network-based meeting. When joining the meeting, the participant may provide a token recorded on a blockchain to the communication service from the blockchain. The ...