ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,707, issued on July 22, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Verifiable credential with dynamic claim" was invented by Brandon Murdoch (Reading, Great Britain), Ankur Patel (Sammamish, Wash.), Nithya Ganesh (Redmond, Wash.) and Ronald John Kamiel Eurphrasia Bjones (Dilbeek, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Permitting a claims holder to get a limited verifiable credential leveraging off of a previously-issued verifiable credential. This is done by having the limited verifiable credential include only a selected subset of the verifiable claims present within the previously-issued verifiable creden...