US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on June 16 for "Device authentication sharing" (Texas, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,304, issued on June 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Device authentication sharing" was invented by James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Yupeng Jia (South Pasadena, Calif.) and Eric Zavesky (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Device authentication sharing can include detecting, at a gateway of a local network, authentication of a user device for communication with a first local device that is in communication with the gateway via the local network. The gateway can send, to a second local device operating on the local network, an authentication notice that indicates that the user device has authent...