ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,798, issued on July 14.

"Efficient transfer of authentication credentials between client devices" was invented by Chandra Shirashyad (Fremont, Calif.), Ildar Abdullin (Dublin, Calif.), Umang Shah (Fremont, Calif.), Naveen Kumar Keerthy (San Jose, Calif.) and Cedric Beust (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system facilitates a transfer of enrollment in authentication services between client devices. The authentication system enrolls a client device in authentication services to enable the client device to be used for authenticating requests to access one or more services. As part of enrolling the clien...