ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,545, issued on July 15, was assigned to Identity Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for permitting access to a party using a decentralized identity" was invented by Phillip Shoemaker (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for controlling access to communications with a party using a decentralized identity. A device may receive biometric information of a user, and retrieve, using the biometric information of the user, a first communication address associated with the user. The device may transmit, via the first communication address, a request to communicate with the user; and may r...