ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,965, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Online authentication for medical devices" was invented by Eliyahu Ravuna (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Or Yaacobovich (Metula, Israel) and Hue Nguyen (Fountain Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device includes a QR generator and a user access/activity log. The QR generator generates a QR code at least from a username of a user and at least one OTP (one-time password) for the user and enables access of the user to the medical device upon receiving an OTP from the user. The user sends the QR code to an online authorization server for...