ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,329, issued on Aug. 11.

"End-user identification and authentication utilizing in vivo smart medical devices" was invented by Bruce Reiner (Berlin, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of identification and localization of a device associated with a host, including: providing data on the device to an identification module from an imaging technology, a visualization technology, a remote sensing technology, or a device identifier; storing the data in a data storage; analyzing the data using the identification module; searching one of the data storage or a device database and cross-referencing the ...