ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,544, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Identity Reel LLC (Layton, Utah).

"Consent-based authorization system for taxation and consumer services" was invented by Brandon Peterson (Layton, Utah) and Andrew McDermont (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media. A method can include a first server receiving, from a first computing device, first data indicating a consumer service request, a consumer service entity identification (ID), and an authorization token each associated with a first user. The m...