US Patent Issued to TAPTEXT on Oct. 14 for "System and methods for universal identification and passport management" (Connecticut, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,968, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TAPTEXT LLC (Coral Springs, Fla.).

"System and methods for universal identification and passport management" was invented by Steve Doumar (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) and David Teodosio (Guilford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for universal identification and passport management using a phone identifier and text redirect for user identification. The first step is engagement by a mobile phone with a call-to-action embedded in various media that triggers a text message to auto-populate on the mobile phone. The auto-populated message comprises information about the user and a...