ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,452, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Device authentication using out-of-band communications" was invented by Mohit Arora (Frisco, Texas), Abeye Teshome (Austin, Texas), Richard M. Tonry (Georgetown, Texas), Bassem El-Azzami (Austin, Texas), Vinodkumar Vasudev Ottar (Mckinney, Texas), Luis Antonio Valencia Reyes (Waxahachie, Texas), Adolfo Sandor Montero (Pflugerville, Texas) and Rajaravi Chandra Kollarapu (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for authenticating a user device to an application device are disclosed. The user device may request access to a (computer-...