ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,451, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to A3BC Group (Paris).

"Authentication method secured by structural decoupling of personal and service identifiers" was invented by Daniel Krob (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enabling secure transactions without the physical support of a security identifier and, in particular, without a token, consisting in recording on a first computer device B a unique digital identifier IDi associated with a unique user Ui, the profile IDi being associated with at least one service identifier IDsi associated with a service Si registered on a second computer device S which is different from...