ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,344, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and system for authenticating a secure credential transfer to a device" was invented by Vadim Sukhomlinov (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alberto Martin (Los Altos, Calif.) and Andrey Pronin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for authenticating a secure credential transfer to a device includes verifying user identity and device identity. In particular, the method includes verifying user identity by requesting and receiving a user identification input at a first client device and verifying device identity of a second client device by (i)...