ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,268, issued on July 22, was assigned to Early Warning Services LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Digital identity" was invented by Gregory Slowiak (Chicago), Eric Woodward (San Francisco), Philip Lam (San Francisco) and Jeff Shultz (Waco, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an identity network that can provide a universal, digital identity for users that can be used to authenticate the user by an identity provider for relying parties. The identity network receives a request from a relying party that includes deep linking to an identity provider selected by the user. The request specifies the user as well as any other inf...