US Patent Issued on Sept. 16 for "Techniques for mapping a smart card to multiple user personas" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,525, issued on Sept. 16.

"Techniques for mapping a smart card to multiple user personas" was invented by Valentin Berbenetz (Oakville, Canada), Deepa Mahalingam (North Chicago, Ill.), Sandeep Kumar Dhankar (Fremont, Calif.) and Yogesh Ashok Dandekar (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for mapping a smart card to multiple user personas are described. A smart card may be used for authenticating a user requesting access to a resource associated with an organization. The smart card may have embedded therein a digital certificate identifying a digital identity of the user. The user may be ass...