ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,685, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Decentralized identity management for web3" was invented by Ibrahim Badr (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identity management can leverage a blockchain to securely store and access personal data. Third party computing systems can request access to the personal data to obtain biometric data, medical history data, and/or other biological data associated with the user. The systems and methods can determine whether to provide access to the data and can generate log data to be logged in a view log based on the access provided."

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