ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,310, issued on April 29, was assigned to AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVEL RELATED SERVICES COMPANY INC. (New York).
"Decentralized application authentication" was invented by Andras L. Ferenczi (Peoria, Ariz.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are various embodiments for authenticating users of applications using decentralized data models for storing a user's identity. A fingerprint for a computing device is received from an application executing on the computing device. An identity key associated with the fingerprint for the computing device is then obtained, the identity key being linked to a signed claim. The signed claim is retrieved...