US Patent Issued to NTT on Sept. 22 for "Authentication system, authentication method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,670, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Authentication system, authentication method, and program" was invented by Fumiaki Kudo (Tokyo), Akira Nagai (Tokyo) and Yusuke Iijima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication system includes: a certificate authority; a central control system; a group including an unmanned vehicle that is a master vehicle and an unmanned vehicle that is a slave vehicle; a management system; and an external system. The central control system includes a first authentication information transmitting unit that transmits, to the master vehicle, first authentication information rec...