ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,901, issued on April 15, was assigned to NAGRAVISION SARL (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for registering or authenticating a user with a relying party" was invented by Yolan Romailler (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland) and Nils Amiet (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of registering or authenticating a user with a relying party is provided, the method including: receiving a request to generate a key pair, the request including key-generation data, the key-generation data including relying party information; deterministically generating, based on at least the key-ge...