US Patent Issued to Yubico on July 28 for "Pre-registration of authentication devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,092, issued on July 28, was assigned to Yubico AB (Stockholm).

"Pre-registration of authentication devices" was invented by Jakob Ehrensvard (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Harrell (San Jose, Calif.) and Jerrod Chong (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for pre-registering authentication devices. A security key provider system may receive a request to pre-register a security key with identified applications from an enterprise. Responsive to receiving the request, the security key provider system instructs the security key to generate a unique authentication code for each of the applications. The se...