US Patent Issued to ASSA ABLOY on May 12 for "Mutual authentication with pseudo random numbers" (Austrian, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,512, issued on May 12, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Mutual authentication with pseudo random numbers" was invented by Martin Kaufmann (Graz, Austria) and Adam Augustyn (Krzeszowice, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A verifier device of an authentication system comprises physical layer circuitry and processing circuitry coupled to the physical layer circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to encode an authentication command for sending to a credential device; decode a response communication received from the credential device, wherein the response communication includes a first random number; encrypt the f...