US Patent Issued to Shopify on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for user authentication by a third-party server" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,017, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for user authentication by a third-party server" was invented by Mathieu Perreault (Mont Royal, Canada), Ilya Grigorik (San Francisco), Mikhail Korablin (Kingston, N.Y.) and Stijn Heymans (Palm Desert, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server of a first network domain receives an indication container object created in a second network domain. The server identifies, based on the indication container object, a unique identifier, where the unique identifier allows initiation of logging into an account. The server transmits a confirmation code to a ...