US Patent Issued to Blockchains on March 25 for "Systems and methods for managing digital identities" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,852, issued on March 25, was assigned to Blockchains Inc. (Sparks, Nev.).

"Systems and methods for managing digital identities" was invented by Alex Oberhauser (Burlington, Mass.), Matthew Commons (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alok Bhargava (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing digital identities. In some embodiments, a method is provided, comprising acts of: receiving a request to validate at least one statement about a user; identifying, from the request, a reference to a distributed ledger, the reference comprising an identifier for the distributed ledger and an identifier for a transaction recor...