ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,655, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal and authentication method" was invented by Jia Hao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal according to one aspect includes: at least one memory configured to store an instruction; and at least one processor configured to perform the instruction, wherein the processor performs the instruction, and thus provides, to another terminal, an authentication request related to data being an authentication target, authentication information about an own terminal, and credit information about the own terminal, acquires, from the another terminal, an authentication resu...