US Patent Issued on Nov. 4 for "Sharing security settings between entities using verifiable credentials" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,822, issued on Nov. 4.

"Sharing security settings between entities using verifiable credentials" was invented by Bailey Marie Bercik (Seattle), Mark David Morowczynski (Seattle), Arvind Bipin Suthar (Medina, Wash.) and Ramiro Calderon Romero (Monroe, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first verifiable credential is received at a second entity from a first entity. The first verifiable credential is cryptographically signed by the first entity using decentralized identifier (DID) of the first entity. The first verifiable credential includes a security indicator that specifies a security posture of the second entity based on security...