US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus, methods, and systems for pre-authentication, keep-authentication, and regain-authentication" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,421, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Apparatus, methods, and systems for pre-authentication, keep-authentication, and regain-authentication" was invented by Sergey V. Yarygin (San Jose, Calif.), Gyudong Kim (San Jose, Calif.) and Chandlee Harrell (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication is a key element for content protection. This invention makes the authentication fast and reliable by hiding the authentication, keeping the authentication, and regaining the lost authentication. The embodiments in this invention reduce the complexity and power consumption of the ope...