US Patent Issued to Insight Direct USA on May 26 for "Authentication for wireless networks" (Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,908, issued on May 26, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Authentication for wireless networks" was invented by Benjamin Kotvis (Sussex, Wis.), Cory Douglas Peterson (Safety Harbor, Fla.) and Michael James Sciacero (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network system includes a processor and memory encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive an offered pre-shared key from a wireless device via a wireless network; access a mapped key-user pair comprising a unique pre-shared key and a user profile; and determine whether the offered pre-shared key corresponds to the unique pre-s...