ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,851, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intertrust Technologies Corp. (Berkeley, Calif.).

"Resource access management and secure authorization systems and methods" was invented by Peng Yang (Beijing), Jiahua Gong (Beijing) and Chitai Kenny Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for secure user authentication are described. In certain embodiments, a client device such as a smartphone may be provisioned with a secure key and/or other secret information. The client device may be used to generate unique secure tokens and/or other credentials used in connection with an authentication process. A user may provide th...