ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,695, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CHINA IWNCOMM Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, China).

"Identity authentication method and apparatus, and storage medium, program and program product" was invented by Manxia Tie (Xi'an, China), Jun Cao (Xi'an, China), Xiaolong Lai (Xi'an, China), Xiaorong Zhao (Xi'an, China), Qin Li (Xi'an, China), Bianling Zhang (Xi'an, China), Yuehui Wang (Xi'an, China) and Dandan Ma (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an identity authentication method. By means of the method, confidentiality processing is performed on identity information of a requesting device, to prevent the identity information of...