US Patent Issued to ID.me on Oct. 7 for "Method and system for online third-party authentication of identity attributes" (District Of Columbia, Virginia, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,041, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ID.me LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Method and system for online third-party authentication of identity attributes" was invented by Blake Hall (Washington), Matthew Thompson (Chandler, Ariz.), Tony Huynh (Gainesville, Va.) and William Kern (Leesburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for online authentication includes receiving membership authenticating information specific to members of a particular affiliation from the members and from one or more remote databases. The information is aggregated and stored in an aggregate database. An individual is authenticated, via a widget at least one of int...