ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,409, issued on March 25, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Method and apparatus for digital identity authentication" was invented by Patrick Adam (San Antonio), Dustin Starr Trimmier (San Antonio) and Steven Gonzalez (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing proof of a digital identification of a user which may include activating, on a mobile computing device, a bank application and a digital identification service provider application, and which may allow the bank application to have access to user accounts after the bank application receives a digital ...