ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,922, issued on June 10, was assigned to Thirdwave Systems Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Securely isolating one or more qualified digital identifiers associated with a user when accessing a digital service" was invented by Matthew Lorenzen (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Peter Beck Jonas (Coatesville, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information relating to a non-qualified digital identifier in a context of a digital service being provided is received. The non-qualified digital identifier is associated with one or more qualified digital identifiers. It is determined that the one or more qualified digital identifiers would be authorized for the dig...