ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,635, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to ecoATM LLC (San Diego).

"Identifying electronic devices using temporally changing information" was invented by Babak Forutanpour (San Diego), Ted Ray Gooding (San Diego), Derchang Chao (San Diego) and Mazen Labban (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods to verify the identity of an evaluated device that has been previously identified and evaluated remotely from a reader device. The reader device obtains from an evaluated device temporally changing information, where the temporally changing information includes a unique identifier associated with the evaluated d...