ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,891, issued on June 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Anonymous authentication with token redemption" was invented by David Isaac Van Cleve (Seattle) and Gang Wang (Frederick, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method for anonymous attestation that includes receiving, by an application running on a client device and from a first content provider, an authentication request to authenticate a user to receive content from a second domain of a second content provider, redeeming, with an attestation token issuing system that issued an anonymous attestation token attesting to the user's au...