
Our patents
As an early innovator in reusable digital identity, AI-powered age estimation and AI-powered identity authentication technology, we have a diverse patent portfolio with some early priority dates.
Granted patents
As of April 2021, we have:
- 17 US patents granted or allowed
- 3 European (inc. GB) patents granted or allowed
- 2 GB patents granted or allowed
- 5 pending US patents
- 5 pending European patents
- 6 pending GB patents
Our portfolio
Digital Identities - Registering an ID document
[US2016239653]
Digital Identities - Attribute Exchange
[US2016239657]
Digital Identities - Auditable identity receipt system
[US2016239658]
Digital Identities - Authentication of Bearer
[US2016241532]
Digital Identities - Sharing of Attributes
[US10,325,090]
Web content
This is a patent for mutual authentication of the web content provider and the end user using authentication tokens (one time credentials) that can be exchanged through different methods such as QR code, web deep links, NFC (Near Field Communication), BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy).
[US2016241532]
Anti-touting
This is our original anti-touting patent, which stops ticket bots by associating tickets to a digital identity and then analysing past behaviour of ticket purchasing, event attendance and use of tickets to decide whether a particular person is a ticket tout, and therefore whether they should be sold a ticket or not.
[US2017169362]
Two factor liveness detection
This is our process of using multi modal (two or more) ‘liveness’ tests (which may include biometrics) to help us to prove that people are who they say they are in a set time frame. In our granted patent one of the liveness tests must have an element of randomly generating a test, e.g. showing random words on the screen or a random facial expression (like a wink).
[US2017048244]
Yoti Commercial Patent - Linking assets to a digital ID
This is an extension of the ‘core commercial’ system patent. It describes how assets can be associated with a digital identity (derived from a trusted document) and then transferred to another digital identity. A trail of the transfers is recorded to prove ownership. The asset can be a card, title deed or valuable piece of equipment.
[US20180165781-A1]
Yoti Commercial Patent - Linked payments and digital ID
The method of using a digital ID system to transfer an ID attribute at the same time as using the digital ID system to make a payment. It covers payment tokenisation allowing payments from user to merchant without the merchant having to store or receive any payment details.
Yoti Commercial Patent - Encryption of attributes
This is the first patent granted that covers the precise way that the Yoti app operates. It covers the clever sharing mechanism that allows Yoti to share an attribute with a relying party whilst Yoti itself cannot see or decrypt the attribute itself.
[EP3257223]
Yoti Commercial Patent - Verifying Physical Assets
This covers the method of attaching a QR card to a physical asset, like a bank card, and then unlocking the asset by using the QR code and a digital identity system to prove your identity as the correct recipient of the asset.
[US10,521,623]
Facial Anti-Spoofing
A method of correlation of a face to sensor data on a device, based on movement of the device in relation to the face presented to it.
Behavioural biometrics
An anti-spoofing test which analyses the actual movements of a personal device when being moved by an individual, compared with the precise movements the system expected that specific user to make.
Requested patents
We also have a large number of patents that we are being assessed, including the following:
Our ‘core commercial’ system
[PCT/EP/2016/053076]
Yoti Connections and anti-ticket touting
Application number: GB 1715111.9
Computer-implemented tracking
[US2016350861]
Liveness detections
Here we have five separate liveness related claims rolled into one patent application. They are: Random words at a random location and tracking eye movement. Heartbeat detection by viewing changes to characteristics of the skin. Specular reflection in the eye (eg showing image reflections in the eye). Person vs background parallax (checking background changes as you expect it to). Pupil response to light pulses.
[US2017046583]
Yoti Sign
Application Number: GB 1808656.1
Smart Contracts
A method of associating one or more verified identity attributes with a smart contract on the blockchain. The smart contract and identity attributes are hashed together so that no substitute smart contract can be put in its place.
Application Number: GB 1813458.5
Depth Detection
This is an extremely exciting R&D project to train a machine learning model using 3D and 2D images as input to produce a model that can detect depth in a 2D image.
Yoti Keys
A patent covering our Yoti Keys. These are NFC enabled physical ‘keys’ which can hold encrypted personal attributes, which can then be transferred to a tablet if the user taps the key against the NFC reading part of the tablet. This is most useful in areas with poor mobile signal or for users who do not wish to use a mobile phone based reusable ID system.