ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,726, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cable Television Laboratories Inc. (Louisville, Colo.).
"Certificate authentication" was invented by Darshak Thakore (Broomfield, Colo.), Stuart Hoggan (Longmont, Colo.), Dave Belt (Morrison, Colo.) and Amol Bhagwat (Louisville, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authenticating devices utilizing Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to facilitate exchange of authentication information or other data to permit or otherwise enable access to services requiring authentication credentials, certificates, tokens or other information. The authentication may utilize Digital Transmission Content Prote...