US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Secure element authentication using over the air optical communication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,773, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure element authentication using over the air optical communication" was invented by Jouya Jadidian (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mohit Narang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ruben Caballero (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for facilitating secure communications accesses a secure element in response to determining that an authorized user operates the system. The system causes a light emitter to emit an output light signal for detection by a second system. The output light signal is emitted according to a predefined field of view...