US Patent Issued to Via Science on July 14 for "Integrating identity management with verifiable credentials" (Canadian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,338, issued on July 14, was assigned to Via Science Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Integrating identity management with verifiable credentials" was invented by Jesus Alejandro Cardenes Cabre (Montreal), Madjid Aoudia (Rennes, France) and Jeremy Taylor (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured for integrating centralized identity management with decentralized identities and verified credentials. The techniques can bridge Web2 identity management with emerging Web3 decentralized credentialing to facilitate secure and interoperable access to resources with both Web2- and Web3-based authentication mechanisms. The sy...