ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,728, issued on May 13, was assigned to AvaWorks Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Talking head digital identity authentication" 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, comprising: publishing a talking head show, downloading talking head file, talking head show file, and signature files from a server into a playback device; downloading talking head hash and talking head show hashes from a blockchain into the playback device; using a talking head and talking head show public key to...