ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,812, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MAVENIR NETWORKS INC. (Richardson, Texas).

"Client authentication and access token ownership validation" was invented by Ahmad Muhanna (Richardson, Texas) and Peter J. McCann (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing authentication of a client for wireless communication includes: sending, by the client, a request to an authorization server via a proxy node, to obtain an access token, wherein the request to obtain the access token contains a client signature of the client; authenticating, by the authorization server, the client as a valid recipient of the access toke...