ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,100, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ASSA ABLOY AB (Stockholm).

"Device provisioning of authentication capability" was invented by Krzysztof Grzegorz Fabjanski (Bielsko-Biala, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of provisioning an authentication device of an authentication system comprises sending an authentication application from an authentication system backend server to a backend network of a cellular network operator; verifying, by the backend network of the cellular operator, the authentication application and including the authentication application in an operator profile; sending the authentication application wit...