ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,277, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sinumy Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Authentication-gaining apparatus, authentication apparatus, authentication request transmitting method, authentication method, and program" was invented by Yasuhiko Adachi (Osaka, Japan) and Takanori Isobe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication-gaining apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires unique information; an encrypting unit that encrypts the unique information using a cryptographic key, thereby generating encrypted information; and a display unit that repeatedly transmits an authentication request containing the encrypted inf...