US Patent Issued to LOYALTY IOT on March 4 for "Network based hyperlocal authentication" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,639, issued on March 4, was assigned to LOYALTY IOT INC. (Reno, Nev.).

"Network based hyperlocal authentication" was invented by Michael A. Kerr (Reno, Nev.) and Jesus P. Espinoza (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network based hyperlocal authentication system and method is described. A wireless client device requests a key from a remote network component. The remote network component generates and transmits the key to the gateway. The gateway then transmits the key to the client device application with a gateway short-range transceiver. The wireless client device receives the key from the gateway and then requests and rece...