ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,428, issued on June 3, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Federated identity verification and access control for public service entities" was invented by Alton W. Drake II (New Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including at least one processor associated with a second public service entity may obtain a notification of at least a first guest user to access at least one network-based resource of the second public service entity, where the at least the first guest user is associated with a first public service entity, and may obtain a request from a first device of the at least ...