US Patent Issued to OURARING on Oct. 20 for "Methods and apparatus for privacy-controlled secure transactions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,144, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OURARING INC. (San Francisco).

"Methods and apparatus for privacy-controlled secure transactions" was invented by Denis Mars (San Francisco) and Simon Ratner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes outputting with a first device, a first ID and a first ephemeral ID to a server, the first ephemeral ID ephemerally associated with a first party, associating in the server the first account and the first ephemeral ID, outputting with the first device a first data set including the first ephemeral ID to a second device, outputting with the second device of a second party, a se...