ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,548, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ouraring Inc. (San Francisco).
"Display reader device and methods" was invented by Denis Mars (San Francisco) and Simon Ratner (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity reader device includes a short-range transceiver for outputting an advertisement signal to a smart device, and for receiving an ephemeral ID from the smart device, wherein the ephemeral ID is not permanently associated with a user of the smart device, a network interface for providing the first ephemeral ID to a remote authentication service, and for receiving responsive data from the remote authentication servic...