ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,930, issued on April 21, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-sous-Bois, France).

"Method and system for authenticating a user with an authentication server" was invented by Christophe Guionneau (Grenoble, France) and Mamuye Samuel (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for authenticating a user in a first device, the method including sending, by an authentication client of the first device or the application, to an authentication server, an authentication request. The method also includes, in response to the authentication request, sending by the authentication server a first message comp...