ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,940, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Supporting remote unit reauthentication" was invented by Andreas Kunz (Ladenburg, Germany), Apostolis Salkintzis (Athens, Greece) and Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran (Friedrichsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for supporting remote unit reauthentication. One apparatus includes a network interface that receives a first authentication message for reauthenticating a remote unit and a processor that verifies a first domain-name. The first domain-name identifies a key management domain name and an asso...