ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,643, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ouraring Inc. (San Francisco).

"Authenticated health credential access methods and apparatus" was invented by Denis Mars (San Francisco) and Simon Ratner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a system includes receiving with a first transceiver of an identity reader device, an ephemeral ID from a first smart device, outputting with the first transceiver, identity reader data to the first smart device, wherein the identity reader data comprises a first identifier and a challenge, receiving with the first transceiver, responsive data from the first smart device, wherein the r...