US Patent Issued to CITIGROUP TECHNOLOGY on June 23 for "Object authentication" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,897, issued on June 23, was assigned to CITIGROUP TECHNOLOGY INC. (Weehawken, N.J.).

"Object authentication" was invented by Sandeep Nair (Odessa, Fla.), Matthew E. Nunn (Frisco, Texas), Julio Caraballo (Woodcliff Lake, N.J.), Jason Edward Morris (London), Udaya Chandupatia (Frisco, Texas) and Partha S. Peddi (Riverview, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machines, devices, and other objects are configured to use authorization tokens to verify object identities without human input. In examples, the object uses a password to validate the object's identity to an authorization server to obtain an access token for use in multiple applic...