ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,284, issued on April 22, was assigned to Humana Inc. (Louisville, Ky.).

"System and method of authenticating devices for secure data exchange" was invented by Anthony Persaud (Louisville, Ky.), Andrew Flores (Louisville, Ky.), Henry Spindell (Louisville, Ky.), Avery Ryder (Louisville, Ky.), Jaewook Chun (Louisville, Ky.) and Salvatore Nuziale (Louisville, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods authenticating devices for secure data exchange are provided. A ledger of participants authorized to be admitted to a communication session during a time window is generated in response to a scheduling request. For each participa...