ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,493, issued on May 12, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method, cloud-service method, cloud server, self-sovereign identity method for providing a self-sovereign identity cloud service to a user" was invented by Hugo Embrechts (Stuttgart, Germany), Rik Claesen (Stuttgart, Germany), Michele Minelli (Stuttgart, Germany), Noriyuki Suzuki (Stuttgart, Germany) and Kenji Suzuki (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for providing a self-sovereign identity cloud service to a user. The method includes signing, on a user device of the user, an instruction to store self-sovereign ...