US Patent Issued to Volvo Truck on Jan. 20 for "Offline authentication and authorization for networked devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,851, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Volvo Truck Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Offline authentication and authorization for networked devices" was invented by Jonas Andersson (Angelholm, Sweden) and Anders Hultstein (Vastra Frolunda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a first computing device, a first message from an authorization server over a first network. The first message includes an access token for a computing service, including a permission value defining an access time period, and a refresh token defining a refresh time period. The method further includes storing the access token, the ref...