ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,816, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Pei-Hua Hung (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Decentralized zero-trust identity verification-authentication system and method" was invented by Shih-Hsien Hu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Chang Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identity verification-authentication system and method are used for verifying and authenticating at least a first user. The system includes a first prover for acquiring a first unique feature provided by the first user; and a verifier in communication with the first prover for generating a first proof request. The verifier sends a first variant data included in...