ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,921, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Encoded identifiers for credential access and distribution" was invented by Toni Jackson (Sydney), John Crowhurst (Brisbane, Australia) and Karthikeyan Paramasivam Balasubramanian (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to workforce credential management. A request is assigned to a first profile identified by a first identifier. The first profile includes worker credentials. An association between the first profile and a second profile identified by a second identifier in the request is stored. The first identifier is ...