ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,898, issued on July 8, was assigned to TripleCyber Corp. (Vienna, Va.).
"System and method for secure Internet communications" was invented by Jose Manuel Rivera (Burke, Va.), Michael Lasky (Silver Spring, Md.) and Andrew Bruce (Glen Rock, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention is directed toward a method for facilitating secure communications on the Internet that allows individual actors to be registered, their identities to be confirmed at an acceptable level of confidence, and their association with, and/or ownership of, certain user identifiers (such as email addresses, phone numbers, domain names, application usernames...