US Patent Issued to VeriSign on July 21 for "Decentralized identifier determination by a registry operator or registrar" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,606, issued on July 21, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Decentralized identifier determination by a registry operator or registrar" was invented by Andrew Kaizer (Arlington, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for identifying a registrant of a domain name using a decentralized identifier are described herein. A computing device can determine a decentralized identifier (DID) for associating with the domain name and validate an identity of the registrant based on the decentralized identifier. The computing device can be associated with a registrar or a registry operator that use...