ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,761, issued on June 23, was assigned to MOZARC MEDICAL US LLC (Minneapolis).

"Mutual authentication between a hardware token and non-networked device" was invented by Arindam Ghosh Roy (Bangalore, India) and Sharath Nagendra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing mutual authentication between a hardware access token and a reader device are provided. The systems and methods include reading a unique or pseudo-unique identifier of the hardware access token and computing a password for the hardware access token based on the unique or pseudo-unique identifier and a group secret of the reader de...