US Patent Issued to Via Science on Oct. 27 for "Privacy-preserving credentialing and payment" (Canadian, Danish, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,912, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Via Science Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Privacy-preserving credentialing and payment" was invented by Jesus Alejandro Cardenes Cabre (Montreal), Madjid Aoudia (Rennes, France), Jeremy Taylor (Odense, Denmark), Pourya Fazli (Montreal) and Arteum Kanda (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may be configured to allow a user to authenticate themselves with a system and/or make digital payments using digital credentials. The digital credentials may allow the user to control their own identification and prove their identity and/or attributes to approved parties while maintaining privacy. U...