US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 16 for "Portable access point for secure user information using a blockchain backed credential" (Texas, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,532, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Portable access point for secure user information using a blockchain backed credential" was invented by Zachary S. Ankrom (Austin, Texas) and Kamran Khaliq (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments permit scope limited access to a user's secure information using blockchain backed credential(s). A user can register with a secure information manager and control the scope with which the user's secure information is shared. For example, the user can permit a vetted entity access to the user's secure information via a portable ac...