US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Securing authentication flows using a decentralized identifier" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,822, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Securing authentication flows using a decentralized identifier" was invented by Brandon Brian Murdoch (Reading, Great Britain), Daniel Godbout (Kirkland, Wash.), Michael Blair Jones (Redmond, Wash.) and Kristina Yasuda (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital wallet generates an identification value associated with a DID of a DID owner. The digital wallet generates a first request including the identification value for an authentication token from an identification provider. The first request is provided to the identification...