ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,585, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd (Yokneam, Israel).

"Multi-destination challenge-response security tokens" was invented by Yuval Itkin (Zoran, Israel), Michael Tahar (Yavne, Israel), Haim Kupershmidt (Or-Yehuda, Israel) and Ameer Mahagneh (Umm Al-Fahm, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a secure challenge-response method includes requesting respective token challenges from devices, receiving the respective token challenges from the devices, providing the respective token challenges to a signing server, receiving from the signing server a signature of the respective token challeng...