US Patent Issued to Cisco Technology on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for securely transferring account information between devices" (Michigan, Illinois, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,685, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for securely transferring account information between devices" was invented by Robert Jacob Linial Small (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jordan David Neidlinger (Saline, Mich.), Benjamin Warren Freiband (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aparna Ashok (Duvall, Wash.) and Marshall Dean Anderson (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes scanning, by a first device, a code from a second device and determining, by the first device, information comprising a peer identifier and a first certificate hash using the code. The method also...