US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 25 for "Derived child verifiable credential with selective claims" (British, Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,960, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Derived child verifiable credential with selective claims" 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-issue...