US Patent Issued to Wells Fargo Bank on Dec. 9 for "Self-sovereign identification via digital credentials for identity attributes" (California, Arizona, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,298, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A..

"Self-sovereign identification via digital credentials for identity attributes" was invented by Harmit Singh Dhanoa (Mountain House, Calif.), Andrew G. Foote (San Francisco), Nikolai Stroke (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Duc M. Trinh (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for the generation and provisioning of digital credentials, which may demonstrate that a trusted entity has validated individual identity attributes, or sets of attributes, of a user. Digital credentials may also demonstrate one or more ext...