ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,049, issued on June 2, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Distributed identity (DID)-based establishment of connection between electronic devices" was invented by Prashant Seethalakshmi (Bengaluru, India), Takashi Togame (Bengaluru, India), Sadayoshi Murao (Bengaluru, India) and Srinivasa Pingili (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic device implemented for establishment of a connection with other electronic devices based on a distributed identity (DID). The first electronic device creates a first wallet account for a first user associated with a second electronic device, based on a first credentia...