ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,407, issued on June 17, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).
"Systems and methods for use in provisioning credentials" was invented by Prashant Sharma (Madison, N.J.) and Bryn Anthony Robinson-Morgan (Mosborough Village, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for provisioning identity credentials based on interactions with verified or trusted users. One exemplary computer-implemented method includes receiving a request for a digital identity from a user, where the request includes identifying information for the user, and transmitting, to a verified user, an attestatio...