US Patent Issued to Circle Systems on Feb. 18 for "Credential-free authentication systems and methods" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,564, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Circle Systems Inc. (Oakland, Calif.).

"Credential-free authentication systems and methods" was invented by Phani Nagarjuna (Danville, Calif.), Gene Allen (Magnolia, Texas), Sara Duryea (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Geoff Halstead (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for performing access control method by running a security software service as a localhost web service on an endpoint device; communicating with a system web server which manages licensing of the system and authentication of the endpoint device; creating a secure digital capsule that is co...