US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 14 for "Verifiable identity map maintaining identities and associated public keys" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,415, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Verifiable identity map maintaining identities and associated public keys" was invented by Ramarathnam Venkatesan (Redmond, Wash.), Nishanth Chandran (Bangalore, India), Srinath Setty (Redmond, Wash.), Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Redmond, Wash.) and Satyanarayana Venkata Lokam (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are directed to a verifiable identity map that maintains identities and public keys associated with the identities. The map is maintained by a ledger database that provides tamper-resistant/evid...