US Patent Issued to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) on June 24 for "PKI-based user authentication for web services using blockchain" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,901, issued on June 24, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"PKI-based user authentication for web services using blockchain" was invented by Minya Liang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, storage media for authentication are described. On the methods includes receiving, at a smart contract on a distributed ledger, a signed authentication challenge. The method includes verifying the identity of the user who signed authentication challenge. The method includes raising an event that indicates that the user has been authenticated; wherein a server listens for events ...