US Patent Issued to Plaid on June 23 for "System and method linking to accounts using credential-less authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,547, issued on June 23, was assigned to Plaid Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method linking to accounts using credential-less authentication" was invented by William Hockey (San Francisco), Nick Agin (San Francisco), Baker Shogry (San Francisco), Samir Naik (San Francisco) and Jonathan Chao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for linking to accounts using credential-less authentication that includes: within a first application context at an account-linking computing service: receiving a request to establish an account link, establishing the account link to a user account of an account service using us...