US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Identity ecosystem" (North Carolina, New York, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,534, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identity ecosystem" was invented by Kapil Kumar Singh (Cary, N.C.), Suresh N. Chari (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Sridhar Muppidi (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of connect to a blockchain network of an ecosystem comprised of a plurality of consumer nodes, generate a universal unique identifier (UUID) associated with a user data attribute, execute a query request for the user data attribute associated with the UUID, derive a disclosure level from the query request, execute a smart co...