ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,403, issued on June 17, was assigned to AvaWorks Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Talking head digital identity authentication on a distributed network" was invented by Roberta Jean Smith (Santa Monica, Calif.) and Nicolas Antczak (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A talking head digital identity immutable dual authentication method for use over a distributed network, comprising: downloading talking head and talking head show files from nodes of a distributed network; downloading hash values of a talking head and talking head show from a blockchain; sending a hash of a publisher's identification from the blockchain to ...