US Patent Issued to Via Science on May 5 for "Access gateway system for accessing a resource" (Canadian, American, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,140, issued on May 5, was assigned to Via Science Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Access gateway system for accessing a resource" was invented by Jesus Alejandro Cardenes Cabre (Montreal), Jeremy Taylor (Montreal), Madjid Aoudia (Montreal), John Christopher Muddle (Barcelona, Spain) and Colin Gounden (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access gateway may grant a requestor access to a computer resource. The requestor may receive a credential from an identity provider and calculate a zero-knowledge proof of possession of the credential. The requestor may use the proof to request access to the computer resource. The identity pr...