US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 22 for "Anonymous identifier token" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,668, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Anonymous identifier token" was invented by Nimish Shrivastava (San Marcos, Calif.), Ketal Gandhi (San Diego), Archana Shrivastava (San Diego) and Sagar Ramananda Jogadhenu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, processes, and computer-readable media for authentication. For instance, a process can include receiving first authentication information for a user; generating an authentication token based on the received first authentication information, wherein the authentication token does not include the first authentication info...