ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,340, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure verification of an individual using wireless broadcasts" was invented by Frank Gorgenyi (Bremerton, Wash.), Matthew Thomas Beaver (Seattle), Aidan George Purdy-Say (Seattle), Bartosz Henryk Paliswiat (Kirkland, Wash.), Jared Enoch Henderson (Maple Valley, Wash.), Brian Andrew Bowman (Seattle), Peter Dawoud Shenouda Dawoud (Bothell, Wash.) and Arvind Muthukrishnan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for securely verifying an identity of a user of...