ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,747, issued on July 8, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Client registration for authorization" was invented by Alejandro Vera (San Antonio), Miguel Solis Jr. (San Antonio), Hieu Nguyen (Southlake, Texas), Jason Paul Hendry (New Braunfels, Texas), Nathan Mahoney (New Braunfels, Texas) and Debra Randall Casillas (Helotes, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for client registration for authorizing an aggregator service to access data on behalf of an application, through self-registration of an application client identifier and issuance of authorization token(s) based ...