US Patent Issued to Plaid on March 17 for "Unlinking accounts from applications" (California, Nevada, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,316, issued on March 17, was assigned to Plaid Inc. (San Francisco).

"Unlinking accounts from applications" was invented by William Rowan (Incline Village, Nev.), Shira Jaffe (New York), Jordana Cohen (New York), Maksim Rozen (New York), Tim Wong (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kieran Parikh (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Tara Jotwani (San Francisco), Chandni Chopra Sorrentino (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Wang Tian (Jersey City, N.J.) and Haochen Zhao (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a data partner may transmit a first request associated with a user account and may receive a first response including an access token. The data partner...