ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,645, issued on Aug. 12.

"Techniques for binding tokens to a device and collecting device posture signals" was invented by Vinayak Shenoy (Seattle), Yang Chen (East Brunswick, N.J.), Lana Young Choi (San Francisco), Tanvir Ahmed (Kirkland, Wash.) and Dipti Shiralkar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for user authentication are described. A first device may generate a keypair at a secure module. The keypair includes a public key and a private key that is stored at the secure module. The first device may authenticate the first device and a user of the first device with an identity management ...