US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 8 for "Terminal and authentication method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,139, issued on Sept. 8, 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 at least one processor performs the instruction, and thus provides an electronic signature to data by using a secret key of an own terminal, provides, as an authentication request to another terminal, the data provided with the electronic signature, acquires, from the another terminal, an authentication...