ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,484, issued on July 29.

"Decentralized secure true digital ID for communication" was invented by Josiah Johnson Umezurike (Columbia, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor of an ID verification node and a memory of a decentralized digital identifier for communication (DsTC) module on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor of the ID verification node to: receive a verifiable credential associated with a user, wherein the verifiable credential is uploaded by a sender; apply artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) to scan biometric ima...