ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,970, issued on March 3, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for managing a one-time-password" was invented by Edmond Tuilier (Marseilles, France) and Jean-Pierre Martin (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for providing a One-Time-Password by an OTP device that when configured establishes a communication session between the OTP device and a card embedding a biometric sensor, sends to the card, a request to get a cryptographic value computed from an identifier of the card, tries to authenticate a user through said biometric sensor and automatically releasing the cryptograp...