ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,993, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication device, authentication system, and authentication method" was invented by Tsuyoshi Kobayashi (Tokyo), Koichi Furuya (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Fukui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication device includes: a challenge data generation unit to generate challenge data from a registered electromagnetic characteristic; an expected value generation unit to perform a comparison between the registered electromagnetic characteristic and the generated challenge data, and generate a response data expected value representing a result of the compari...