ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,236, issued on April 21, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Remote authentication credential exchange" was invented by Sridhar Anumala (Hyderabad, India), Santhosh Reddy Akavaram (Hyderabad, India), Raghavendra Lakshman (Hyderabad, India), Abhishek Mishra (Ranchi, India), Aryan Chauhan (Haridwar, India), Anuj Agrawal (Kolkata, India), Sanjay Verdu (Tirupati, India), Vinod Kumar Enapakurthi (Vizianagaram, India), Sai Praneeth Sreeram (Anantapur, India) and Surendra Paravada (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, components, devices, and systems for providing remote authentication i...