ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,629, issued on July 28, was assigned to YINWANG INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Authentication method and apparatus" was invented by Zhe Wang (Dongguan, China), Yawen Wu (Shanghai) and Xuezhong Chu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides example authentication methods and apparatuses. One example authentication method is used for a terminal device. The method includes receiving, by the first service unit, a first request from a second device, wherein the first request is used to request a first seed. The first service unit sends the first request to the first authentication unit...