ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,993, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).
"Verifier credential determination by a registrant" was invented by Andrew Kaizer (Arlington, Va.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for associating verifiable credentials with a decentralized identifier are described herein. A computing device can determine a link between a decentralized identifier (DID) and a domain name, and assign a verifiable credential to the DID to invoke an action associated with the domain name. For example, the verifiable credential can be used to control an identifier on a platform different than t...