ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,650, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Online decentralized identity verification for a multi-sided network" was invented by Anita Paul Rao (Cupertino, Calif.), Sargis Dudaklyan (Sylmar, Calif.) and Matt Wyman (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to facilitating secure communication of private user data between different entities for a verification process conducted during an electronic interaction between the user and a verifier entity. In disclosed embodiments, a verification service executing on a server computer system for a verification session for verify...