ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,173, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for managing user account using near-field communication in wireless communication system, and apparatus for same" was invented by Jingu Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Minsoo Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Hongwon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jeonghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for a third device to perform device authentication in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for same, which comprises: forming a connection with a first device for being provided with a credentia...