ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,153, issued on May 19, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Integrating identity tokens and privacy-preserving identity attribute attest" was invented by Kim Wagner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brian Sullivan (Amersham, Great Britain), Dinah Sloan (San Jose, Calif.), Hao Ngo (San Jose, Calif.), Gaven James Watson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sunpreet Singh Arora (San Jose, Calif.), Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Fremont, Calif.) and Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a user device from an identity network computer, a query set...