US Patent Issued to Network-1 Technologies on Dec. 2 for "Embedded universal integrated circuit card supporting two-factor authentication" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,098, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Network-1 Technologies Inc. (New Canaan, Conn.).

"Embedded universal integrated circuit card supporting two-factor authentication" was invented by John A. Nix (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A module with an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) can include a profile for the eUICC. The profile can include a first and second shared secret key K for authenticating with a wireless network. The first shared secret key K can be encrypted with a first key, and the second shared secret key K can be encrypted with a second key. The module can (i) receive the first key, (ii) de...