ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,878, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CHINA IWNCOMM Co. LTD. (Shaanxi, China).

"Method and device for identity authentication" was invented by Manxia Tie (Shaanxi, China), Jun Cao (Shaanxi, China), Xiaolong Lai (Shaanxi, China), Xiaorong Zhao (Shaanxi, China), Qin Li (Shaanxi, China), Bianling Zhang (Shaanxi, China) and Guoqiang Zhang (Shaanxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for identity authentication. An authentication access controller (AAC) acquires an identity ciphertext message transmitted by a requesting device (REQ), the identity ciphertext message comprising an identity information ciphertext of the...