ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,303, issued on July 29, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Authentication-permission system, information processing apparatus, equipment, authentication-permission method and program" was invented by Sakurako Tamura (Tokyo) and Akira Nagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authentication-permission system includes devices, and a server to generate a private key for each device, and to deliver an extension identifier including an identifier to identify the device and permission information on the device. The server holds the identifier and the permission information on the device; generates the priva...