US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on Aug. 26 for "Authentication system with reduced attack surface" (Dutch Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,528, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Authentication system with reduced attack surface" was invented by Sebastiaan Jacobus Antonius De Hoogh (Noord Brabant, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to an authentication system (100; 101; 102) for computing an authentication token for a service provider to authenticate a user system to the service provider, the authentication system comprising a processor configured to jointly blind with a user system an encrypted user identity and to compute an encrypted identity for the service provider from the bl...