US Patent Issued to PAYPAL on May 20 for "Credential storage manager for protecting credential security during delegated account use" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,151, issued on May 20, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Credential storage manager for protecting credential security during delegated account use" was invented by Yona Ju (San Jose, Calif.) and Fun-Chen Jou (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems and methods for a credential storage manager for protecting credential security during delegated account use. A first user that controls the account may delegate usage of the account to a second user through a credential manager of a transaction process that manages sensitive authentication information and delegates account usage. The credent...