ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,738, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Fall Guy LLC (Seattle).
"Privacy-preserving identity verification" was invented by Patrick Meehan (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for privacy-preserving identity verification includes, at a computing node, receiving, over a computer network, a unique user identifier for a user within an online community, and a community identifier for the online community. An identity profile identifier is computer-generated based at least in part on the unique user identifier, the community identifier, and a nonce identification value. A network-accessible identity profile for the user is comp...