US Patent Issued to DENSO on Dec. 9 for "System and method for authenticating and authorizing devices" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,924, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).

"System and method for authenticating and authorizing devices" was invented by Eric John Smith (Holland, Mich.), Raymond Michael Stitt (Ada, Mich.), David Stuckless Meyer (Hudsonville, Mich.) and Brian Ensink (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a distributed security model that may be used to achieve one or more of the following: authenticate system components; securely transport messages between system components; establish a secure communications channel over a constrained link; authenticate message content; authorize actions; and ...