ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,567, issued on May 13, was assigned to Global Accountability Corp. (Great Falls, Mont.).

"Systems and methods for identity verification" was invented by James Michael Kinsey (Great Falls, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Verifying an identity of a first user over a network involves using a first computing device to obtain, from a near-field communication (NFC) device held by an article, an access request to a network-based service, where the access request is obtained by confirming biometric information the first user; and transmit the access request for the first computing device to receive access to the network-based service. U...